Will Champlin Quotes
Being yourself is the most important element for me, because, if you're trying to be something you're not, the audience will pick up on that.
Will Champlin
Quotes to Explore
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
Irwin Shaw
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
Karen Hesse
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It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.
Joanne Rowling
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All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
Jacob Batalon
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
Saad Hariri
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I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'
Laura Kightlinger
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
Nas
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It simply isn't acceptable for the likes of Google, Facebook, Amazon and others, which amass data by the terabyte, to say, 'Don't worry, your information's safe with us, as all sorts of rules protect you' - when all evidence suggests otherwise.
Maelle Gavet
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If you watch a television show made by accomplished professionals of children's TV, it's all very expressive.
Taron Egerton
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When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
G. Willow Wilson
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I thought it must be desperate to be old. To wake up in the morning and remember that you were ancient - and so behave that way. I thought old people were full of aches and pains and horrible illnesses.
Maeve Binchy
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I was looking for the people who were making the music inside the cabinet. I would look in there and see if I could find somebody who was making all this wonderful music.
Abbey Lincoln
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A lot of things that we cannot buy and sell in markets used to be totally legal objects of market exchange - human beings when we had slavery, child labour, human organs, and so on. So there is no economic theory that actually says that you shouldn't have slavery or child labour because all these are political, ethical judgments.
Ha-Joon Chang
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My life was on the line here and my career and everything I worked for, it was hanging by a thread.
Rafael Palmeiro
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Every citizen of this country should be guaranteed that their vote matters, that their vote is counted, and that in the voting booth, their vote has a much weight as that of any CEO, any member of Congress, or any President.
Barbara Boxer
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We buy the tabloids to witness someone else's life go wrong, so we can feel a bit better about our own troubles.
Taylor Negron
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I am determined to live without illusions. I want to look at reality straight. Without hiding.
Hanif Kureishi
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'Ponyets! They sent you?' 'Pure chance,' said Ponyets, bitterly, 'or the work of my own personal malevolent demon.'
Isaac Asimov
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When you look at all of the conservative groups in town and across the country, we all agree on the same things. Where we sometimes get into a disagreement is over the tactics to get to the endpoint.
Bill Flores
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I remember the excruciating school task of writing a three-page term paper. But, oh, that feeling when I was done! I think I drive myself for that feeling of accomplishment.
Jimmy Buffett
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Studios have been trying to get rid of the actor for a long time and now they can do it. They got animation. NO more actor, although for now they still have to borrow a voice or two. Anyway, I find it abhorrent.
James Coburn
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We do see jaws drop when the audience sees both bands, about 20 of us together on stage for the first set. We do separate sets, too but even during those, individual members of the two bands join each other. It's a cross pollination if you will. Between us we have about 50 hits and we do nearly all of them. It's just a dynamic and fun show. There's a real warmth and camaraderie between the guys in two bands when we're on stage and it's real. I'm enjoying that.
Robert Lamm
Chicago
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Being yourself is the most important element for me, because, if you're trying to be something you're not, the audience will pick up on that.
Will Champlin
