Terrence Mitchell Riley (Terry Riley) Quotes
I had always been more interested in playing and improvising than sitting down at a desk and writing out a piece. I'd always found it more fun to play, and the other a little bit tedious. I always had trouble with the decisions.
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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The biggest thrill in the world is entertaining the public, there is no bigger thrill than that.
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If we want more trade in the world, we should establish bilateral trade agreements with other democratic countries. That way we can control the decision-making process. The major economic countries of the world will enter into those agreements.
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I pride myself on my personilty and not my looks because one day, I will be old and crusty with a moustache, and someone is going to love me for my personality and not looks. So whoever is going to marry me is going to laugh till he dies.
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For me, my 20s were all about reaching for the brass ring of work in theater, television, and film, surviving in between by waiting tables, painting houses, serving coffee, and temping.
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Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.
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I'm not that moody. I don't have big ups and downs.
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A writer has a difficult fate, but a Jewish writer has an especially difficult fate. His soul is torn; he lives on two streets with three languages. It is a misfortune to live on this sort of 'border,' and that is what I have experienced.
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I was an accidental model. One day I was asked to me a model by a neighbor who was short on models. Then I got into TV.
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Make the workmanship surpass the materials.
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You have people who can't act and they get all these parts. Paris Hilton falls into her own category. She's made a career out of it.
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Sudan expelled bin Laden on May 18, 1996, to Afghanistan.
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To express yourself needs a reason, but expressing yourself is the reason.
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I thought 'Chelsea Girls' was going to change my life.
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I made myself into a poet because it was the first thing I really loved. It was an act of will.
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I like duos with percussionists. I like the songs that percussionists sing.
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Sexy ain't guys like Churchill and Lincoln.
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Clint Eastwood has always been a hero.
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I think I'm better at playing difficult than I am at being normal. And to me that's something I'm working on now. I'm not really that difficult or complex a person, so it's interesting to me that it's just so much harder for me to play an everygirl.
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When actors first come up, you're auditioning for everything - you're trying to sniff it out like a pig with a truffle and you would do anything!
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Especially in the realm of bringing an opportunity to do something creative to people, as I said, who wouldn't ordinarily have that opportunity. I think that's very important.
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It is insight into human nature that is the key to the communicator's skill. For whereas the writer is concerned with what he puts into his writings, the communicator is concerned with what the reader gets out of it. He therefore becomes a student of how people read or listen.
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I had always been more interested in playing and improvising than sitting down at a desk and writing out a piece. I'd always found it more fun to play, and the other a little bit tedious. I always had trouble with the decisions.
