Walter Becker Quotes
From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
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Imperfection is perfection.
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I think it's important to keep your own identity when you've got a baby.
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I suppose it's easy to play a hypocritical politician with a smiling face; it's also quite gratifying to play.
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In the past, in the '60s and '70s, genres were much more segmented. You had action guys who were deadly serious about it, and I think you had comics that were comics.
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The best thing an actor can be is flexible, because all directors are different and all actors are different.
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First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
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Change is no threat to culture.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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A great painting is a great painting.
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
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I have said many times that most people work all their life to retire to play golf, while I played golf all my life to retire to work. I enjoy working. It has kept me young and on the move, and I have had a good time with it.
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Any time you get two people in a room who disagree about anything, the time of day, there is a scene to be written. That's what I look for.
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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As Governor, I will demand that Colorado's government serves the taxpayers of Colorado, not special interest groups and government bureaucrats.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
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Most of my advances were by mistake. You uncover what is when you get rid of what isn't.
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In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.
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I found I could speak louder and was more comfortable if I was doing it in someone else's crazy voice.
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It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.
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I think I always wanted to have adventures in my life. I was always kind of a rambunctious kid.
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From a linguistic point of view, you can't really take much objection to the notion that a show is a show is a show.
