Adrian Ballinger Quotes
Weigh risk carefully, and once you decide a risk is manageable and necessary in the pursuit of your dreams, take it.
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If Harvard is $60,000 and University of Toronto, where I went to school, is maybe six. So you're really telling me that education is 10 times better at Harvard than it is at University of Toronto? That seems ridiculous to me.
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I'd always fantasized about writing a new play. Even when I had all this success in television, what I was daydreaming about in my dressing room is that one day I would do it.
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I guess just a lively imagination is the best effort an actor can have.
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Acting, and the privilege of being able to do it for a living, is so important to me. I don't turn up and just hope for the best. I really fret about it. I do my homework; I prepare myself for the experience of playing a particular character.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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Excellence always sells.
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Would they call me a diva if I were a guy?
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The two World Wars came in part, like much modern literature and art, because men, whose nature is to tire of everything in turn... tired of common sense and civilization.
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I haven't had an orthodox career.
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London is my home. I miss my family so much; it's hard being away. And I miss salt and vinegar crisps. And Marmite. And good fudge. Oh my God. Clotted cream fudge.
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You can tell a lot about a person from his underwear.
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It's possible to train great people, but a person with great training who doesn't have certain characteristics is only going to go so far.
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Palestine is the issue, and until this issue is resolved, there can be no peace.
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A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.
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I do play the guitar, and I can sing, but just enough to carry a tune.
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You read statistics all the time like, "13 million people are at risk because of the severe drought in East Africa," but I think those kinds of numbers fall on deaf ears - there's so much devastation in the world, that it's a bit overwhelming for people.
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Birth is a bittersweet event ... a place where heaven and earth collide in a perplexing clash of hopes, dreams, facts, fears, questions, and expectations.
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We've invented a new marketplace. There was no easy way to rent a person's bedroom over the Internet or book a vacation rental over the Internet. There was no guidebook for us to turn to as we defined this new marketplace.
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Weigh risk carefully, and once you decide a risk is manageable and necessary in the pursuit of your dreams, take it.
