Hilary Beckles Quotes
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I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.
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As a musician usually music is your way out.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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My castings sort of go in phases. There'll be several icy professional parts - a lawyer or a cop. And then there'll be the intelligent-but-wounded group and then the period things. It goes in sequence.
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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Many children make up, or begin to make up, imaginary languages. I have been at it since I could write.
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We should develop anti-satellite weapons because we could not have prevailed without them in 'Red Storm Rising'.
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My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
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You learn to read the audiences after a while, and there are all different kinds of gigs.
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Winning a ring is everybody's goal, whether you're a player or a coach.
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The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.
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I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.
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I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.
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I'm still traumatized that I'm going to be on a big screen in a white bikini and naked so who knows!
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Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
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People think about Bitcoin incorrectly. They think about it as currency or about gold or hoarding, speculation, about how much money do you make. When really, what it is is an API for programmable cash transactions.
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For example, many colleges in their writing programs teach some of my work.
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People all over the world have problems. And as long as people have problems, the blues can never die.
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Change can be good. It just depends on what we make of it.
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The affinity towards suits was a functional thing for me early on because I was thrifting at secondhand shops, and it was also initially a way of grieving - my father had passed, and he used to wear suits all the time.
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In order to reinvent yourself, you have to dig deep and look at yourself. I'd lost my way creatively, and I was humbled, and so I think I got really basic about wanting to depict people in the ways that I find them amazing and funny and emotional and that I can relate to and do from an instinctive, gut place. People trying to survive ... That's what all my movies are about.
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War happens to people, one by one. That is really all I have to say and it seems to me I have been saying it forever. Unless they are immediate victims, the majority of mankind behaves as if war was an act of God which could not be prevented; or they behave as if war elsewhere was none of their business. It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
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Originally I studied as a musician, a classical pianist. That was my career before I took up acting in my late 20s.
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West Indian people had made their greatest single cultural investment in cricket.
