William Arthur Ward Quotes
Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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I love playing live, I don't like studios all that much. I need the reaction of the audience.
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I moved to New Zealand from Winnipeg when I was almost five. I hated it. It was to a city in the south of New Zealand called Invercargill and there was constant rain. There was a depressing sensation in the air.
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Sometimes a time dictates what a film will be. Sometimes a film dictates what the time will be.
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Who said that artists should sell their soul, expose everything about themselves?
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For me it's also - the music is equally as important. I mean I think as somebody who writes music, there just has to sort of be the marriage between both.
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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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Spending money is much more difficult than making money.
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It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.
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My father was a sort of John Wayne Texan who'd worked as a cowboy when he was young. He'd participated in rattlesnake round-ups and swum with copperheads.
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A lot of actors and actresses pull from past experiences.
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I played point guard my whole life.
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For Gore 2000, I was a formal campaign adviser: contrary to RNC mythology, my brief was not 'wardrobe,' but rather policy on women's issues, and messaging. I was also married to a Clinton speechwriter, and observed the message decision-making process from the perspective of a spouse.
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Touring is tough. You're almost in a haze because you don't really know where you are half the time: You're in a hotel room one moment, and the next thing you know, you're onstage performing for 60,000 people, then you're back on an airplane. It's very hectic and I couldn't do it without my family.
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L.A. interests me, the whole band scene and relaxed carefree feel, but it does not mean you have to dress like a hippy.
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I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.
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If I were a woman, I would love to have lots of kids. But for men, I don't believe in it.
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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But then all that died down and as far as casting was concerned it didn't really matter that I had been on Broadway.
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The very first song I wrote was about a boy that I was obsessed with.
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We didn't have a chance to form the world we were born into. Now we have the opportunity to make a new one.
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We can't be anti-everything - we need an energy plan that adds up. But there's a lack of numeracy in the public discussion of energy. Where people do use numbers, they select them to sound big and score points in arguments, rather than to aid thoughtful discussion.
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Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.
