Troian Bellisario Quotes
Hollywood is a challenging place; it's very easy for people to lose their heads. Fortunately, I grew up on it and I think I have a little bit of a head start.
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I am often critical of Israel's policies when in the country, but then feel defensive of them when overseas.
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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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Time can be an ally or an enemy. What it becomes depends entirely upon you, your goals, and your determination to use every available minute.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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I would probably do anything with David Mamet. He's so great. I just love his writing.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.
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My parents, Gary and Patricia, let me be in my world. They never told me what I couldn't do. It helped me adapt in a positive way.
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I have a very all-over-the-place lifestyle. The people I know who are married - 90 percent of them have houses and live in the same place and sleep in the same bed every night.
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My specialty was baked potatoes with cheese melted over broccoli. I was also very good at melting cheese on bread.
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Defeating racism, tribalism, intolerance and all forms of discrimination will liberate us all, victim and perpetrator alike.
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One of my biggest flaws is I don't take advice.
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When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.
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To make a successful film from a successful play is probably much more difficult than making one from scratch, just as any carpenter will tell you that it is more difficult to restore an old house than to build a comparable new one.
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To me, people's lives and loves are entwined with their characters, natures and circumstances. I regard all general advice with skepticism.
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No man ever listened himself out of a job.
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Church attendance rates among white Americans without a college education have dropped pretty significantly. People with college degrees are more likely to go to church than people without college degrees among the white working class.
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There is no scarcity of opportunity to make a living at what you love; there's only scarcity of resolve to make it happen.
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I know what I need. I don't want people to tell me what I need.
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I do not put my tastes as incredibly expensive, but they are incredibly expensive for an average man.
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Humorous writing is often thought of as substandard in comparison to work with a more dramatic or tragic intent. I don't know what to say to this except that I disagree wholeheartedly.
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The experience on that movie (Dead Poets Society) was, for lack of a better term, life-altering. Peter Weir has a unique talent for making movies that are intelligent but also mainstream. I've never been terribly successful at doing that.
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It's the people who love us or hate us - or both - who hold together the thousands of fragments we are made of.
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Hollywood is a challenging place; it's very easy for people to lose their heads. Fortunately, I grew up on it and I think I have a little bit of a head start.
