Tracy Spiridakos Quotes
I would love to do comedy. I'm actually really animated and goofy. I talk with my hands so intensely.
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Funny is an attitude.
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There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.
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It's such a weird self-confidence that an artist has - to conceive of this thing that serves no function and say, 'I'm going to really work hard for it and give it and it's just going to matter to people.' You really have to believe it all on your own.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
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Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.
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I have a grim outlook on the world, and in particular on humanity. Spent years denying it, but I am very misanthropic. And I live alone on a mountain for a reason.
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We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.
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I dig science fiction, though it was never really my thing.
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The war on terror is the most insane and immoral war of all time. The Americans are doing what they did in Vietnam, bombing villages. But how can a civilised nation do this? How can you can eliminate suspects, their wives, their children, their families, their neighbours? How can you justify this?
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From compassion springs humility. The ego is verily a gateway to hell. The person who is egoistic is far from being religious.
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But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.
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Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.
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People love things about Hollywood. People love to see the inside of what's going on.
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I don't concern myself too much about calories and fat.
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When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.
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I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.
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People aren't buying records like they used to, so it's nice to try to figure out a way to make them do it. I would enjoy the same thing to own an old movie house, to try to trick people to come in - like having 3-D or Smell-o-Vision or Vibra-Vision or something. Mcguffins to get people interested.
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With 'Boxer,' we made the kind of music we wanted to make and didn't really worry about what the expectation was.
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Regaining the title from the thief who stole it from me.
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To do successful research, you don't need to know everything, you just need to know one thing that isn't known.
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I think 'West Side Story' is one of the greatest, if not the greatest, musicals ever put onscreen - or stage, for that matter. I, frankly, like Zeffirelli's 'Romeo and Juliet' very much, too. I grew up with that... I loved it. I loved the score; I loved the acting.
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I would love to do comedy. I'm actually really animated and goofy. I talk with my hands so intensely.
