Eddie Perez Quotes
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I think what I do in my acting world and what I do in my standup world is bring up a brand that I want to bring across. Once you figure out your brand and what you do, it's kind of easy at that. You end up getting your audience.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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I have a great sensitivity to kids. I have a great sensitivity to the people that fall between the cracks.
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I don't feel proprietary, but I do feel there is a human identity to the borough of Hackney that's quite peculiar. It was always bloody-minded and difficult; it always stood up to central government.
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Journalists always explain that people are mad at them because they tell the truth, which is often unpleasant or uncomfortable to hear. However, they fail in situations where there is more than one truth.
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A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They were a little relief from the grimmer, grayer parts of the newspaper, and one of the best people at doing this was Will Rogers.
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Any faith of more than 1.6 billion people is going to have some of them who falsely justify actions on that faith.
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I think that the idea that I'm writing for many more people than I ever imagined has created a certain general responsibility that is literary and political. There's even pride involved, in not wanting to fall short of what I did before.
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Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
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The consumerist culture insists that swearing eternal loyalty to anything and anybody is imprudent, since in this world new glittering opportunities crop up daily.
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What winning is to me is not giving up, is no matter what's thrown at me, I can take it. And I can keep going.
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I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.
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People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.
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A holiday is when you celebrate something that's all finished up, that happened a long time ago and now there's nothing left to celebrate but the dead.
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Asian players train so hard. Most of the time, on Monday mornings, the only people you see on the range are Asians. I mean, only see Asians.
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You feel this pressure that people will take you more seriously if you play guitar, but I've decided I'm a singer and that's enough.
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It's such a joy to talk to a roomful of people who have read my novel and are eager to talk about it.
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When people are putting pressure on me I just completely ignore it.
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The reason I got into acting was not to explore myself. I was a reader, I didn't care about acting. I got into it in college, but I had no interest really in that, in getting up in front of anybody.
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My assumption when I began writing was that you were never going to make any money. And you were never going to reach everyone. Therefore you had to do as much as you could in the service of something you genuinely believed in. And if you do that and people get upset, well, there you go.
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To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero.
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I've mellowed quite quickly.
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People love you when they on your mind/A thought is love's currency.
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Ninety percent of the people I grew up with didn't succeed.
