Missi Pyle Quotes
I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals.
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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.
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'Sister Act' was my first audition out of school. I was 21 and cast as the understudy. It was non-Equity, so I lived in L.A. on $300 a week. I did that for a month and then came to New York to do a couple of gigs, including 'Hair' in the park, before going to London with 'Sister Act,' where I played the lead.
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I'm not a sun person.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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I'm a musician. I'm not, like, a personality. I've never really pretended to perform that kind of function.
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The gravest risks from al Qaeda combine its affinity for big targets and its announced desire for weapons of mass destruction.
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I rush to add that I find the Web infinitely useful for rustling up information, settling arguments or locating the legends of rock stars.
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South Africa is highly politicised; even small issues become politicised, and it becomes quite bitter.
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If there's no fire, there's no scream. If there's no scream, then no one hears you and no one comes to help you in the first place. The depth of my struggle has definitely determined the height of my success. To be able to teach my kids not just about success but about the struggle that comes with it.
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My commitment to the Republican movement was pure and simply patriotism, a love of Australia... a desire or passion that all of our national symbols should be unequivocally and unambiguously Australian.
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Back in 1975, we were making all the decisions about what people were going to watch.
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I want to go to film college to learn about the departments and how everything works. Then I'm going to start directing.
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According to my principles, every master has his true and certain value. Praise and criticism cannot change any of that. Only the work itself praises and criticizes the master, and therefore I leave to everyone his own value.
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I don't have goals in life.
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I don't have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else's or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.
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We won't tolerate abuses and crimes made every day in the name of freedom of speech. That is freedom of extortion and blackmail.
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I would never shoot down any opportunity to challenge myself or stretch myself.
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Film music should have the same relationship to the film drama that somebody's piano playing in my living room has on the book I am reading.
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Public opinion polls are rather like children in a garden, digging things up all the time to see how they're growing.
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Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates; outstanding, well motivated privates.
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My wife is a classically trained piano player, and she also orchestrates.
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The better the acting is, the less visible the director and the less visible the actor.
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I started performing in high school. There was a pretty great drama department at my school, and that's when I started doing plays and musicals.
