William Ellery Channing Quotes
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Victorious living does not mean freedom from temptation, nor does it mean freedom from mistakes.
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As an actor there's a lot of scrutiny and, even when you've had success, it becomes about sustaining that success. A friend of mine described it as a peakless mountain. Even for De Niro there's Pacino and for Pacino there's De Niro.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
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I could pose in fashion commercials as a high society star but politics is a new way of life.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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I've never rejected the world I came from. To be rejected by it is horrible.
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Names, once they are in common use, quickly become mere sounds, their etymology being buried, like so many of the earth's marvels, beneath the dust of habit.
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For my life, I need to make my own choices.
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After so many years of rejection, I felt acting would have to become a hobby rather than a full-time profession.
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We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the game.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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Pop knew absolutely nothing about pro football.
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I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
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If you do like what you do, you're cooperating and sharing.
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The crush of lobbyists on Washington and purchase of the media by corporations has created a big business-run government and a worthless press leaving Americans screwed and ill-informed.
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I find it extremely difficult talking about my songs because there's so many different things that can make a song come together.
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Storytelling and elegant style don't always go hand in hand.
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Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.
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Maybe there are times when an honest hatred serves us better than love corrupted by sentimentality, meretriciousness, sententiousness, cuteness.
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Movies, particularly the big hit movies, are all just special effects. But on television, the writers are in control of the shows, and they control the scripts.
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Every man is a volume if you know how to read him.
