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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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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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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My entire career stands on the strong pillars of women-oriented films. This stems from the fact that I am sensitive to the entire aura and mystique of a woman and womanhood.
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I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it.
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I would break a lot of cymbals. You whack the cymbals hard enough, and they will crack in half. Drums are not actually as sturdy as they look. They're actually somewhat fragile instruments.
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Sudan expelled bin Laden on May 18, 1996, to Afghanistan.
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All Americans have benefited from the dedicated service of Representative Henry Waxman. In every battle and in every moment that mattered most, Rep. Waxman stood up for the air we breathe, the water we drink, and the wild places we cherish.
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The girls show up wearing nothing. I can’t lie, I’m 16, I don’t hate it. I don’t have a girlfriend.
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My grandmother certainly does not care for celebrity.
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The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don't notice they're getting made fun of. So they'll say something back that's not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument.
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For an individual, playback singing is not enough to sustain a career, and it is not really a main source of income.
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I joined the Wildlife Conservation Society, working there, in 1995, but I started working with them as a student in 1991. I was appointed as a teaching assistant at my university because I accomplished with honor.
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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.
