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 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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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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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 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'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.
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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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There are no ghosts, my love. Death is final. The soul is that ineffable combination of memory and personality which we carry through life...when life departs, the soul also dies. Except for what we leave in the memory of those who loved us.
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One of the great problems of philosophy is the relationship between the realm of knowledge and the realm of values. Knowledge is what is; values are what ought to be.
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I like looking cute. So I want to look cute in the water.
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To sing a duet together means sharing with someone both the pleasure and the responsibility of making music for an audience which is there to feel enjoyment through music.
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Even when she was alive, Esther Kreitman's novels, short stories and translations received far less attention than the work of her famous brothers, I. J. and Isaac Bashevis Singer.
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Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
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Koreans are hilarious.
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My parents were just searching for an alternative way of raising their children.
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Philosophy was once considered science.
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I read 'Rebecca' when I was a teenager and was swept away by the powerful voice, the gut wrenching suspense and the dark, twisted love story at its center.
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My clients were always poor folks, working folks, people who were in trouble and couldn't afford to pay a whole lot. I found it very difficult to say no to somebody who needed help, so most of my work turned out to be pro bono. It didn't start out that way, but it turned out that way because I never got paid.
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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.
