Ray Santiago Quotes
I think, with certain characters, you have to listen. Sometimes, listening can be funnier: the thing you don't say is the one-liner. That's the ying to the yang.
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On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.
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I don't really write jokes down. I tend to have a premise that I work out and test on stage.
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Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.
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I haven't read a review of one of my films for the best part of 10 years.
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I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.
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I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
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I would prefer to have a more appealing job. If I could still change careers, I would prefer it. This unfortunate art is made for long beards and ugly faces rather than for a relatively well-endowed woman.
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Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
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Do you all have a living room floor or a bedroom floor? Then you can write a book.
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The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest to so many people.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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I have great respect for the semicolon; it is a mighty handy little fellow.
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My grandmother is the person who inspires me the most.
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I feel like, big city or small town, you can relate to following your parents' footsteps or putting your own dreams on the back burner or vices that we get caught up in - that whole cycle. That's not just a small-town thing. That's a life thing.
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The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with the elite of Pyongyang, whose existence is a mix of sadism and whimsy; or with the masses who are bombarded day and night with the propaganda of North Korea's alternate reality.
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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
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The celebrity's desire to shape the next generation of young minds by opening a school is by no means unique to Diddy.
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I record stuff all the time, like little vocal things. I write random things down... Sometimes I just get things stuck in my head and I record them, and that actually becomes a song quite a lot of the time.
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I had a hip replacement a couple of years ago. I have a song about that. And why wouldn't you? It strikes me that that was a huge event. It's kind of funny and horrible and interesting, so why wouldn't one write about that?
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Growth isn't central at all, because I'm trying to run this company as if it's going to be here a hundred years from now. And if you take where we are today and add 15% growth, like public companies need to have for their stock to stay up in value, I'd be a multi-trillion-dollar company in 40 years. Which is impossible, of course.
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I thank the Lord for the brain He put in my head. Occasionally, I love to just stand to one side and watch how it works.
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My lessons didn't come at my father's knee. Like all good lessons, they were learned from example.
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I'm one of those people that I make a song... then I write another song and then I'm like, 'But this song is so much better than this song,' and then I kind of ditch that song. It's a long process.
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I think, with certain characters, you have to listen. Sometimes, listening can be funnier: the thing you don't say is the one-liner. That's the ying to the yang.
