Helen Keller Quotes
Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.
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People get TV deals by doing something in their grandmother's basement. It is definitely the wave. Everybody is trying to do all that stuff. I mean, the Internet is the only reason that I've gotten work is because I've somehow created a line and people have seen it. And then I've been asked to auditions.
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About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.
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I'm not anti-middle-class in the slightest. Look at me! I am very pro people putting time and money and effort into trying to improve the world.
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Real luxury is having the time to read endless stories in bed with my children. And I get that all the time. I'm so blessed.
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Being listened to and being heard is an experience that doesn't happen terribly often. To listen compassionately or nonjudgmentally to another person - not to get too heavy about it - but I once heard somebody say that was a form of real prayer.
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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
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The worldview implied by literary fiction is complex and ambiguous, trying to be faithful to the complexity and ambiguity of life.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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When you are doing a long scene, you have dialogue and interaction to narrate the character. But making sense out of facial expression and reacting is difficult. Having said that, I think such challenges are good for learning.
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I can't do it every day. They're not going to give me much to hit right now. They're pitching me real well. If I get there, fine.
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My favorite roles usually have to do with the story, if it's a good story I usually enjoy doing the character.
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Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.
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I always say the classier cousin of 'Anchorman' is 'Mad Men,' because when you really look at it, why do people really love Don Draper in 'Mad Men?' He's just a terrible guy. But we know why he's terrible, and I think that's really key to why you can be sympathetic to a character.
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However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really.
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Religious beliefs have played a vital role in forming America's character as well as my own. I was raised as a Lutheran, and I believe in God and consider my faith and involvement with organized religion to be an important part of who I am.
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If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job.
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Dictators are ludicrous characters, and, you know, in my career and in my life, I've always enjoyed sort of inhabiting these ludicrous, larger-than-life characters that somehow exist in the real world.
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I always work with the tempo of the energy of the character, whether he's fast or slow, or heavy or light.
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There is a vast territory between what we're trying to leave behind, and where we want to go - and we don't have any maps for that territory.
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I have a lot of respect for people, and I feel they are far more sensible and responsible than to ape or imitate somebody.
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On the farm, I had chores. I had a calf. We had a herd of cattle in the pasture. We'd go and get me a calf at a cow auction with Amish people, which I would raise. I gave it a bottle every day, in this cute little coop, like a giant dog coop almost. I've always been a big animal person.
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No genuinely avant-garde artist should ever be on the government dole.
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If you have a good thing going behind the scenes, you'll have a good thing going on-screen.
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Silver is purified in fire and so are we. It is in the most trying times that our real character is shaped and revealed.
