L. Todd Rose Quotes
It's fine to pretend that people are one-dimensional, like in body size; the problem comes when you forget that you are just pretending.
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It was a great opportunity that I had to take - my very own theater. That comes along once in a lifetime. It doesn't even seem like 15 years ago - time sure flies by. I've really had a lot of fun with it.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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It is human nature to hate the man whom you have hurt.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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If the Soviet Union and the United States have not experienced direct military confrontations, on the other hand, they supported, armed and trained Africans, to fight other Africans.
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I have this assemblage of small facts, which looks like intelligence but no real depth of knowledge about anything. That's why I'm an actor.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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Home is where your rump rests.
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As a child, I loved story books and wanted to be in them so desperately and live the stories.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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The press doesn't stop publishing, by the way, in a fascist escalation; it simply watches what it says. That too can be an incremental process, and the pace at which the free press polices itself depends on how journalists are targeted.
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If a man lets all of my dogs sleep in the bed with us, then that is the most romantic thing. You must love my dogs in order to love me. A man who is nice to my animals and doesn't shoo them away - well, that's the height of romance.
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An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument.
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No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense.
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I think the kick to doing comedy is just to get in a film with really funny people and let them do their jobs. I find that in most comedies, I'm not the funny one, which works out great.
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I've concentrated for a long time on English films because I've got two kids but my oldest son is 11 and I think I'm going to be away for about four months of year now.
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It's fine to pretend that people are one-dimensional, like in body size; the problem comes when you forget that you are just pretending.
