Ray LaMontagne Quotes
Social situations, for me - it's very natural for me to be an observer. That's where I'm most comfortable. I observe things.
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I aspire only to silence.
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I haven't seen the show, but when it was finished I felt good about what we had done. I don't know how it will stack up with Survival, but that'll be up to the critics.
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As I've always said: The future lies ahead.
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Listening is the key to everything good in music.
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I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
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I do a lot of TV stuff, but I also turn a lot down - it's got to be an adventure.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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Siva is one of the best writers in the industry, and 'Srimanthudu' is a great script.
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I don't feel famous.
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The body, what is it, Father, but a sign To love the force that grows us, to give back What in Thy palm is senselessness and mud?
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I think that the character that I'm playing now is so fundamentally different than Ally that I haven't I haven't felt like I had to worry about it at all. But I definitely wanted to make a different choice.
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I love science fiction. There are ways in which this community kept me and my partner alive through some very, very bad years, and I will always acknowledge that.
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Philanthropic dollars are precious resources, so it's our responsibility to consider how we use them carefully. Yet few of us spend enough time doing so.
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I'm blessed because I had my mom as a teacher - sixth through eighth grade - and she is one of the best teachers I've ever had.
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I only write music for myself, I don't try and appeal to anyone else.
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Christ told his disciples not to be anxious about tomorrow, but he never said not to consider tomorrow. Intelligent problem solving demands careful consideration of the future effects of present solutions.
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People in great trouble don't change to other people. They only change to themselves.
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We so love all new and unusual things that we even derive a secret pleasure from the saddest and most tragic events, both because of their novelty and because of the natural malignity that exists within us.
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Pompeii is an extraordinary place to be because it was preserved exactly as it was. There are many other sites. If you visit any other antiquity-type sites throughout the world, they're very damaged with what's gone on over the centuries since they were abandoned. But this one was just, like, sealed, so you're looking at rock surfaces and the carving of letters and names in the stones looks like it was done yesterday.
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To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up.
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I studied art history and philosophy and took economics and political science classes. I just took whatever I wanted and I didn't worry about grades and I read and learned a lot, and I didn't have much of a social life, so it was deeply absorbing.
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Social situations, for me - it's very natural for me to be an observer. That's where I'm most comfortable. I observe things.
