Quentin Bryce Quotes
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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When you are performing in theater, you feel so connected to your audience. It's exhilarating!
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Stuffed vine leaves tend to burn and/or stick when you cook them. To avoid this, use a heavy based pan lined with a few layers of second-rate leaves.
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
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In uniform, I had to make judgments about the best course of action in combat when the only choices were 'bad' or 'worse.' As a member of the media, I only had to decide how to get the best 'shot' - preferably without getting shot.
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With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's.
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If you publish something in traditional media, it's one-way. With social media, we get all this info coming back from those who read our posts.
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Success is the maximum utilization of the ability that you have.
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How well you eat and rest helps you analyse your energy reserves.
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With songs I almost see the images, see the action, and then all I have to do is describe it. It's almost like watching a scene from a film, and that's what I go about trying to catch in a song.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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When I lived in Egypt, we always wore kaftans. I had cashmere kaftans from Halston. You put on a kaftan in your backyard, and it's like you're in Ibiza.
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No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.
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You can't get more for less. You get what you pay for.
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I tell them how what matters is becoming the best you can be at whatever you're doing.
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When I played Gollum in 'Lord of the Rings,' if I was climbing up the side of a mountain, which I physically did, you know, I was on every single occasion swimming through streams, all of that, that wasn't captured. That was filmed on 35 millimeter, and for certain of those shots, it was rotoscoped and painted over.
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I was always more interested in my books and my writing than going out. It's OK to say I'm a nerd. That's me.
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There's the way that light shows in darkness, and it is extremely beautiful. And I think it essentializes the experience of being human, to see light in darkness.
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I really like Amelia Earhart. She's from Kansas. She disappeared, so I have to take her place. I want to be Dorothy. I want to be Amelia Earhart... I want to do it all.
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If you can depict situations and explore life in a truthful way and explore areas of grey - because that's where the truth lives - and you can do that in an objective way and allow people to take from that what they will, I think it's a satisfying sweet spot with storytelling.
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I support affirmative action. I support special measures when you need it.
