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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I'm constantly coming up with new strategies for getting to the mental place where writing is so joyous and playful that I almost can't help putting the words down.
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Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
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There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.
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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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We asked our friends and relations to lend us their children, and, because we lived in London, children loved to come and stay for their half-term holidays.
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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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In New Mexico... I may have vetoed more legislation as governor of New Mexico than all the other governors in the country combined.
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I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
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I mean, I can do that all day long. I can tell you the Vulcan's are not actually devoid of emotion. That they work hard to suppress their emotions. And of course, there actually are no real Vulcan's, though I know the ins and outs of them as fictional characters.
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If you tame me, it would be as if the sun came to shine on my life.
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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.
