C. E. M. Joad Quotes
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Remember that our sons and grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us.
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There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
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Allowing homosexuality means allowing satanic rights.
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I do two cups of coffee with a little bit of raw sugar and soy creamer, and then I do a bowl of plain oatmeal with walnuts and blueberries. Now, if I could do what I really wanted to do with my life, every morning I would have a salami-and-cheese omelet with hash browns and a buttermilk biscuit - and pancakes. But my heart would explode.
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From when I was 7 until I was 22, I played football. That was always my struggle as a kid. I always wanted to be an artist, but my parents were divorced, and my dad really wanted me to play sports, and that's how I got to see him. He would come pick me up or take me to practice, and he was always at my games.
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Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
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You have to fight for your health and stay on top of it. Our bodies are meant to be healthy.
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The act of writing requires a constant plunging back into the shadow of the past where time hovers ghostlike.
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The laziest man I ever met put popcorn in his pancakes so they would turn over by themselves.
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I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.
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If I'm compelled to do something, I don't shy away from it simply because I haven't tackled it before.
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Sometimes the times were dark and the outlook was lonesome, but where there is a will, there is a way. I pitched in and dug at my work until now I am where I am.
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I don't dismiss the music that I was involved with, I don't think it was a joke, I don't think it was funny or a phase, I don't think it was just something I was doing back then, to me it was who I am. It connects all the way through. I don't distance myself from any of it.
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In the movies, they make you look good and tough, but in real life, it's completely the opposite. I do these ueber roles, I think, because in real life I'm quite shy and reserved. In real life, I'm a dork.
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I know I'm not a wordsmith. And I don't write poetry. Sometimes I think I should, because it's really helpful. But I always wanted to write novels.
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Secularist justices de-Christianized our country. They invented new rights for vicious criminals as though criminal justice were a game. They tore our country apart with idiotic busing orders to achieve racial balance in public schools.
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The most important thing you can do as a performer is to be yourself, or be an onstage version of yourself. If you're not being true to yourself, and somebody likes that other version of you, you're kind of stuck.
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I'm really close to my family, and we talk through things. My parents are so amazing, they're brilliant. We try to take one step at a time and be wise about the decisions we make and keep our values and the things that are important.
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Therefore, when we arrive in a place and talk to new people about a new image, it is very hard for them to visualize it. That's where the drawings are very important, because at least we can show a projection of what we believe it will look like.
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I don't know; it's hard for me to understand people that want to get out there and protest on the first day we elect a new guy.
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I was failed in all other aspects of filmmaking and was completely bankrupt because my dreams were higher than realities. So I started my acting school in a small room with 12 students to prepare future actors and actresses.
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There was never an age in which useless knowledge was more important than in our own.
