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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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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The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason.
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I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.
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Worry is the product of a future that we cannot guarantee and guilt is the product of a past we cannot change.
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I'm open to anything. I think everyone should enjoy every moment that they experience.
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Television in the last few years has been where all the great writers are going. TV now is what indie film used to be.
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My brain cannot conceive how old my body is.
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Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.
