Tom Lehrer Quotes
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Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image.
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
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Really, life is complicated enough without having a bunch of Senators deciding what we should do in the privacy of our own homes.
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The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.
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Pride the first peer and president of hell.
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Actually, I don't think there's anyone that represents the artists, except the artists themselves.
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When it comes to jobs, jobs are just like products in the sense that the free market operates and sees that somebody gets paid what they're worth.
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I'm a little bit of a control freak.
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I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impressions to make friends at school. I would do them during recess. Maybe some of the kids thought I was being weird, but everyone seemed to have a good time.
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It was a big-time change, coming off the bench.
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I'm probably the only bottom-heavy golfer in the country.
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There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.
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Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.
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The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.
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When Art becomes a Science it is no longer an Art.
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A journey awakens all our old fears of danger and risk. Your life is on the line. You are living by your own resources; you have to find your own way and solve every problem on the road.
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Youth is something I never wanna take for granted. I just want to smile and live life.
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I missed the television train at some point. I don't know what happened, but now I've created a complex about it. I'm missing out on what everybody's watching, and now I can't even begin to think about starting to watch a television show because it's been so long. I don't even have a Netflix account.
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In college, I would just drop out of all my classes, and I would just be left with my acting classes.
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Life is like a piano. What you get out of it depends on how you play it.
