Carlos Castaneda Quotes
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Well, when you get into the business, what you have to realize is that signing autographs and getting 'bothered' is just part of the deal. It's not a bother to me at all. That's part of being an actor and that's something you have to realize before you ever get into this business.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.
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I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do.
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Everyone has something to sell. The greatest thing you can ever sell is an idea or talent.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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When you take risks and things don't go your way, you can be heavily criticised by the media.
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You know once you get in the business you know what you're getting into.
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The very important thing you should have is patience.
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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Readers of novels often fall into the bad habit of being overly exacting about the characters' moral flaws. They apply to these fictional beings standards that no one they know in real life could possibly meet.
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A fascinating breed, Old Etonians. Impeccable in their social skills and very portable - you can put them anywhere, and they are absolutely charming.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Experience is what you get while looking for something else.
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My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly.
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You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.
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I think that I identify with Philadelphia for a lot of reasons. Without even thinking about it, I called myself 'Philly's Constant Hitmaker' when I first got a MySpace, before I had any real hits. It was kind of just a funny slogan, basically lifted from the Rolling Stones' first album, 'England's Newest Hit Makers.'
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Be, as you have been, my happiness;Let me sleep beside you, each night, like a spoon.
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We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the sermon on the mount.
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There is, it seems, an unbridgeable chasm between the concerns of a Sri Aurobindo and a Pat Robertson.
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Everyone was telling me you have this great potential and you can be on top. I didn't believe that, but everyone was just telling me to believe in myself. I did and I'm kind of up on top and it's amazing.
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The only thing that is real is the being in you that is going to die.
