Michael Ealy Quotes
Study your craft, first. Then explore the business side. If you can commit to mastering both, then you're ready to pursue acting as a living. I really want people to understand that you can't take shortcuts.
Quotes to Explore
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Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.
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When I'm in the studio, I don't finish the song and say, 'That's going to be a big ringtone.'
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A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
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The novel moves like all the arts. It's transforming itself all the time.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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I've got ten pairs of trainers. That's one for every day of the week.
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I've been on the campaign trail so long, some of my wine has turned to vinegar.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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Photography is a small voice, at best, but sometimes one photograph, or a group of them, can lure our sense of awareness.
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I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.
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Guard units in the U.S. are suffering severe equipment shortages which will affect their ability to respond to emergencies in their home States, such as Katrina.
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In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
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I have to get a workout in in the morning. Once my day starts, I'll have the best intentions, and it still won't happen: one of the kids needs to be picked up somewhere, I have to hop on a conference call, or I'm just tired. So I get it done in the A.M.
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Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.
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We, of our time, have played our part in the perseverance, and we have pledged ourselves to the dead generations who have preserved intact for us this glorious heritage, that we, too, will strive to be faithful to the end, and pass on this tradition unblemished.
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I think prom is just about enjoying yourself.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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Acting in a stage play is like working the evening shift in an office.
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It is not possible to live in this age if you don't have a sense of many contradictory forces.
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I've always felt a spiritual connection with acting. And I felt whole when I was onstage.
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You don't want to play a character you can't inhabit or commit to fully.
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Study your craft, first. Then explore the business side. If you can commit to mastering both, then you're ready to pursue acting as a living. I really want people to understand that you can't take shortcuts.
