Tom Atkins Quotes
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You need to take care of your time and practice, you need to rest and talk to media. So it's really important to organize those things.
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Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way - in an echo of some of Shakespeare's plays - the modern media creates heroes to destroy them.
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People are mean on social media, whoever you are. It's a shame people have to be that way.
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
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I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.
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Historical science is being left in the dust.
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I accepted the interviews and encounters that had to be held with the media, but I would have preferred to work in peace.
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Back in the really olden days, dinner was seldom a ceremonial event for U.S. families. Only the very wealthy had a separate dining room. For most, meals were informal, a kind of rolling refueling; often only the men sat down.
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There are lots of actors who are awful people, but nobody talks about them being awful because they've made billions.
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Essential to the theory of evolution is the premise that everything has come into being by itself.
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I loved being in a band.
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I'm working on bridging the gap between mainstream famous and Internet famous. They're two different things, but eventually, social media will be the way to become a celebrity.
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At least international media can see how I am trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't want to come out of their shells of false beliefs and old practices.
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There are days when I still want to be able to do what I want when I want, but there's also something wonderful about being secure.
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But if Russia is to be part of this larger zone of peace it cannot bring into it its imperial baggage. It cannot bring into it a policy of genocide against the Chechens, and cannot kill journalists, and it cannot repress the mass media.
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One of the things about my ministry is that I have never branded myself as being above the people or superior to people.
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It is true that some people are interested in the buying part of things... They want to buy everything from the movie reviews to the media net to the opinions and so on.
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He who stops being better stops being good.
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The best advice I got as a writer was also the first advice, which came from the late fantasy author and editor Karl Edward Wagner: Any agent who charges to look at your work is a crook.
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Having my animals or my children with me exorcises that feeling of not being wanted.
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I'm a student of the movies. I'm a student of all media. This is what I do, and I like to immerse myself in what's current and what's topical. And I find that I'm drawn to those things.
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Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.
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When that ineffable compound of depression, sadness (these two are not the same), anxiety, self-hatred, sense of failure and fear for the future begins to steal over you, start telling yourself that what you have is a hangover. You are not sickening for anything, you have not suffered a minor brain lesion, you are not all that bad at your job, your family and friends are not leagued in a conspiracy of barely maintained silence about what a s**t you are, you have not come at last to see life as it really is and there is no use crying over spilt milk.
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We ought to be able to have dinner every now and again without the media being there.
