William Moseley Quotes
I used to not listen that much, but I've really learnt to listen to other people and to really listen to what they're saying. I've found, especially being on a film set, people have so many different stories; if you just listen, you can pick up so much stuff. I try to listen as much as I can.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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I had a lovely childhood. For family holidays, we went as far as the car could take us - we would drive to Florida, even though it would take three days. I didn't know we didn't have a lot of money because there was always food on the table. I didn't have a lot of stuff, but I did figure skating for a long time, and I always had my skates.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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I've been very ill. You just have to trust the Lord.
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In the past it seemed like I was making fun of rap a little bit. But it was more me making fun of myself, since I'm not technically a rapper, whatever that means.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
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Our plans for 'Superman?' I can't say. This is the most super secret thing ever. It's like working for the government, like I'm on a covert mission.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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You don't realize how much you use your credit card not even to buy things. It's a card you get so you can navigate society.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis.
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It is a waste of money to help those who show no desire to help themselves.
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You tax Mexico? The president of the United States is going to tax Mexico to get a wall for the United States of America? I'm pointing out the absurdity of a lot of these comments.
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Knavery and flattery are blood relations.
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It's ridiculous that we are in a place where we feel like we can classify and dismiss certain groups of people just because of the way they look, or we have these standards of health - like, cellulite is something you need to get rid of. No, it isn't. It's just a part of people's bodies.
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I suppose people hadn't really thought each decade should have its own character and be different from the others till the 1920s, although I remember in a nineteenth-century Russian novel someone remarked that a character was a typical man of the 1830s - progressive and an atheist.
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Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.
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Without theater, I don't think I would have thought I was a smart person or excelled at anything.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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If I can show people how vulnerable and how flawed I am, maybe others will relate.
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I've had that experience many, many, times - when you don't get roles. I'd developed a good muscle for shaking it off. I buy myself a present whenever I don't get a role that I really wanted. You get bummed out, and then you go, 'Oh! Now I get to go buy a present for myself.' That kind of helps.
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Part of any book is establishing the rules at the end of the world. My first book, 'The Intuitionist,' takes place in an alternative world where elevator inspectors are important, so you have to establish rules, and part of that is, How do people talk? How do they behave?
Colson Whitehead -
I used to not listen that much, but I've really learnt to listen to other people and to really listen to what they're saying. I've found, especially being on a film set, people have so many different stories; if you just listen, you can pick up so much stuff. I try to listen as much as I can.
