Roberto Aguire Quotes
The great thing about NYU, and the reason I chose to go there, was the fact that they don't inhibit you as an actor and tell you, 'You only have to study acting. This is it for the rest of your life.' They're really great at balancing other things; you get to study two days a week anything you want unrelated to acting.
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I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.
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Parenting is tough.
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Good material is good material.
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With 'The Simpsons,' people didn't know what they were gonna see. They didn't have a clue.
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No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.
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I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.
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You're going to a bunch of auditions, and most of the time you're just getting denied, but just staying in there and keeping my head and being determined helped. Growing is what's challenging; you have to constantly practice your craft.
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The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.
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You spend enough time with someone, you're going to have your run-ins.
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You can have the best training, but just feeling full can make you sluggish and cause you to lose.
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Civilization, to be worthy of the name, must afford other methods of settling human differences than those of blood letting.
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There's so much fakeness in the fashion world, but Mum and Dad have always given us a good work ethic and were quite worried at first about whether I could make a living from acting. They've been together for 29 years and share the same values. I really do want to have that kind of marriage myself.
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I began writing 'Matterhorn' in 1975 and for more than 30 years I kept working on my novel in my spare time, unable to get an agent or publisher to even read the manuscript.
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Wit is cultured insolence.
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As a child, I was tortured because my mother was a brilliant seamstress who made most of my clothes. I was despised by the children at school because I looked like I was going to an opening every day. We weren't wealthy at all; we lived in a row house in Philadelphia.
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I'm not going to do the Ben Harper house record or the Ben Harper drum 'n' bass record.
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In high school, I didn't date awesome dudes.
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When you lock everything down tight so that the pain can't get out, you also keep good stuff from getting in.
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Some people are very unfulfilled. In consequence they write passionately good romance because they believe that they could still find happiness. Emily Bronte was not a fulfilled woman but the passion she felt went into Wuthering Heights.
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Here's the problem if you keep raising tax rates: You slow down economic growth.
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Heartbreak taught me that you can rise from the ashes and get over .
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The essential purpose of astrology is not so much to tell us what we will meet on our road, as it is to suggest how to meet it – and the basic reason for the meeting. Which quality in us, which type of strength is needed to go through any specific phase of our total unfoldment as an individual person.
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The great thing about NYU, and the reason I chose to go there, was the fact that they don't inhibit you as an actor and tell you, 'You only have to study acting. This is it for the rest of your life.' They're really great at balancing other things; you get to study two days a week anything you want unrelated to acting.
