William Fichtner Quotes
I like characters where there's something going on and something to make him real. If you find out what somebody cares about, all of a sudden, the whole world opens up.
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I live in the moment, and I reflect later.
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I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
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And it's sort of an old-fashioned ER, in that it's very much about the medicine, and how these people cope. There's very little about the personal lives of the characters.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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How do you be a 45-year-old man in a rock band, do it well, keep your dignity and not become a parody of yourself? I don't think it will be simple.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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A P2P business is a company that creates a platform which allows individuals or 'peers' to directly buy and sell from each other. This activity has sometimes been called the 'sharing economy.' Some are wary of these new companies and the challenge they pose to the established market.
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Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
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As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.
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I must be honest here; I don't think there's such a thing as 'unconventional' when it comes to YA. YA readers are the most open-minded in the literary world. They'll read anything.
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We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
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I've always wanted to work with dogs, so in high school, I worked at the Humane Society for a little while. I honestly think, even today, that would be the other career I would go into. Somehow I would be involved with animals.
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I don't think I have the ability or patience to teach badminton to others.
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I loved DreamWorks and Pixar, and I still love kids' films.
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I exercise about 40 minutes a day, and I'll run one day and do circuit training the next day. I live in an area where there are brilliant hills and mountains, so I get a good hill run with my dog. At home, I'll do the circuit training with old weights, along with pull-ups in the trees and that sort of stuff.
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We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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Pity the poor infant. Born perfect into the world from imperfect parents.
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For a long time, Nella Larsen was the mystery woman of the Harlem Renaissance. In the late 1920s, she published two sophisticated novels, 'Quicksand' and 'Passing,' and then her writing life came to an end. She died in obscurity in 1964.
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You know what the trick of a long life is, Sharpe? Stay out of range.
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Weak and kindly people are often very treacherous. And if they’ve got a grudge against life it saps the little moral strength that they may posses.
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I like characters where there's something going on and something to make him real. If you find out what somebody cares about, all of a sudden, the whole world opens up.
