Hannah Arendt Quotes
To act, in its most general sense, means to take an initiative, to begin... to set something into motion.
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I don't feel like I necessarily juggle. I just feel like I'm focusing on being a singer/actor. That's what I am, and it's what I do.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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I am thankful to the Nobel committee for recognising the plight of millions of children who are suffering in this modern age.
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I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy.
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Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.
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Over the years to come, one thing is for certain: if the monarchy wishes to stay relevant and in power, it will have to change more.
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Everybody has their idiosyncrasies.
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Class structures are a luxury that we cannot afford.
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As anyone knows who has ever had to set up a military encampment or build a village from the ground up, occupations pose staggering logistical problems.
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The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
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You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that!
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It's tempting to just write a comic called 'Everyone Mail Randall Munroe Twenty Bucks' - maybe it would work, and I could just close down the 'xkcd' store and sit on a beach and draw pictures and make snarky Reddit posts for the rest of my life.
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My daughter is the most normal towards me. For her, I am just her mom. I am just a regular mom, and the actor comes after that. If she likes something that I am wearing, she tells me, and if she doesn't, she still makes it a point to let me know.
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I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.
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My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
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Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.
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Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.
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This dark diction has become America's addiction.
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If I hear one more tailgate in the moonlight, Daisy Dukes song, I wanna throw up.
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Classic Van Halen made people want to dance and f**k. Modern Van Halen makes you want to drink milk and drive foreign cars.
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There is nothing worse than when actors come to a set - and it happens a lot with big stars - and they are too aware of where the camera is. They are the show. And that becomes apparent and it affects the production. I am like 'You should not know where the camera is - you should act, and I will do the rest.'
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Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.
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To act, in its most general sense, means to take an initiative, to begin... to set something into motion.
