L. Tom Perry Quotes
We must never let the noise of the world overpower and overwhelm that still small voice.
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I've been working on this feature script for Master Class, a play by Terrence McNally that won a lot of Tonys.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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You've got to really be able to accept the rejection.
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That's what I like to do, I like to make songs.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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Leaders should always expect the very best of those around them. They know that people can change and grow.
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I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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Well, I jumped for the first time when I was 16. I just loved it and immediately realized that it was what I wanted to do.
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But even writing the column for the 'Telegraph,' that idea of working to deadlines, which as an actor that's not something you have to do in the same way. It's excited me into wanting to do a bit more.
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In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.
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Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
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Even after he was gone, I still loved my father. I looked Norwegian, like him, with a long face, strong jaw, thin mouth, and flashing eyes. And, like him, I was verbal, easygoing, and low-key on the surface, and, deep down, proud, socially paranoid, full of self-loathing, and prone to rage at injustice.
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Bohemia is nothing more than the little country in which you do not live. If you try to obtain citizenship in it, at once the court and retinue pack the royal archives and treasure and move away beyond the hills.
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When I say things that sound insane, like only the smartest million people should have the right to vote, well, I mean that.
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Often we see a couple who has separated or divorced and look with sadness at the ‘failure’ of their relationship. But if both people learned what they were meant to learn, then that relationship was a success.
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I don't have one favourite spot - I love writing anywhere that I feel inspired. I have to admit that I do love getting cosy in bed or under blankets on the sofa and writing from there.
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Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?
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I wanted to be a writer first, and I struck out in the world to be a writer first, and then found stand-up as a more creative outlet, as a 3D way to be creative.
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We must never let the noise of the world overpower and overwhelm that still small voice.
