Neil Balme Quotes
I think I know what works and what doesn’t. Most of it is, is all we’ve got is people. It’s just a matter of how people are managed and helped and encouraged, etc etc, rather than anything else.
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I think I've gotten more confident because the more you do it and the more shows you play, you just feel more confident. You feel more confident about everything.
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I had eleven varsity letters. I loved basketball the best, but cross-country is a little more under your control.
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I have many different sides; I can be the life and soul of the party - or a wallflower.
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A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.
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I was quite thin, and I didn't have to worry until I had my appendix out and a mysterious metabolic change occurred.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
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Kanye is the weirdest... He is the weirdest person I know other than me. I've told him that before.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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I grew up watching Salman Khan and Arnold Schwarzenegger, who have always juggled fitness with acting. In real life, I'm a fitness freak. Besides, it is nice to look at an actor who is fit, and if you become a role model, that's a perk.
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I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.
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Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
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I was all about my thoughts, my work, my inspiration. I was always in hair.
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I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.
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I didn't want to be a former child actor for the rest of my life, although in some ways I suppose I am. I am going to be that.
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All of the religions - with the exception of Tibetan Buddhism, which doesn't believe in a heaven - teach that heaven is a better place. At the end of the program, I say that heaven is a place where you are happy. All of the religions have that in common.
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White America is in the minority.
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I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better.
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I think recovery is around the clock. Are you sleeping enough? Are you hydrating enough? Are you stretching? Are you eating well? Pretty much everything that I do is a reflection of how I'm going to feel on the field. I take great pride in getting in an ice bath after training and just taking care of myself.
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Students often approached me about state-paid tuition while I was out campaigning. After I explained to them that if the state pays their tuition now, they will pay higher taxes to pay other people's tuition for the rest of their lives, most of them ended up agreeing with me.
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Scientists are not these guys in lab coats deep in the inner bowels of universities and hospitals with their Bunsen burners. They're the people molding the culture that we live in, the future of our culture, and the technology we rely on every day. These are the rock stars of our time right now.
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I think I know what works and what doesn’t. Most of it is, is all we’ve got is people. It’s just a matter of how people are managed and helped and encouraged, etc etc, rather than anything else.
