William H. Gass Quotes
I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.
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Nuclear power plants must be prepared to withstand everything from earthquakes to tsunamis, from fires to floods to acts of terrorism.
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Part of Michael's uniqueness, I think, comes from the fact that he worked with music. He had a tape which he gave me with many different compositions, really eclectic. These pieces of music were sources of inspiration.
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I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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Dancing has always been a passion of mine.
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I certainly don't have any boundaries myself, but I think I'm very aware of other people's.
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I'm an actor first and foremost, who happens to do improv. I've also done sitcoms, I've done stage.
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I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
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'Wicked' gave us a story that 'The Wizard of Oz' did not. Two sides to every story.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
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Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.
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I don't think I will go for an arranged marriage, but I am not against arranged marriages.
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I've had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place.
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When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.
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You just can't let anything or anyone get in the way of who you are.
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I was an accidental model. One day I was asked to me a model by a neighbor who was short on models. Then I got into TV.
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Mourn not the dead that in the cool earth
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Poetry and prose are of equal importance to me as a reader, and there doesn't seem to be much difference in my own writing.
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I had never written anything. And I had never studied writing. So my motives were pure: I had a great story... a courtroom drama that I sort of fictionalized, and that became 'A Time to Kill.'
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I am not a politician or a public servant. I am still a journeyman actor and a peace and justice activist. I'm a pilgrim trying to win my freedom and serve as best I can in the time I have, with this gift I've been given.
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I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes.
