Troy Polamalu Quotes
I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on.
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The difference between an actor and a star is the budget and the overall presentation of a film.
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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I don't put on makeup when I'm getting ready for a game, because why would I? I am gearing up for battle. How is mascara or eyeliner going to help me win?
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I've learned that I've got to keep level-headed.
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I really believe in the idea of the future.
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I want to play Eva Peron. I've already done a lot of Shakespeare, but I'd like to do Lady Macbeth.
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Commercial success still hasn't come to an artist that isn't signed to a record label. There are very few artists that can succeed without the help of a record label. The role of the record label is still required, it's still necessary.
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Yeah, I volunteered to support the troops, and get out there and show them that we care about them.
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'Stories are light. Light is precious in a world so dark. Begin at the beginning. Tell Gregory a story. Make some light.'
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Fate is not in man but around him.
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I've definitely had crazy acting teachers.
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My district is centered around the progressive college town of Boulder, Colorado, and the high-tech U.S. 36 corridor. It goes from the well-established suburbs of northwest Denver in Adams County to the beautiful mountain towns of Vail and Breckenridge and the majestic Western Slope of the Rocky Mountains.
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Ideas are the great warriors of the world, and a war that has no idea behind it, is simply a brutality.
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It's a character I've created. Actually, that's pretty much the opposite of me, off a farm in the Midwest.
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I remember my father saying to me once, 'I finally know how to describe you, Charlotte. You're prickly.' And he was right - prickly is a very good description. If I had to be an animal, I'd probably be a porcupine.
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Fiction, for me, is sort of a protracted way of saying all the things I wished I said the night before.
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I definitely don't subscribe to the theory that more instruments, or more vocal tracks, harmony, or double tracking the voice, is a good thing. People do their early albums very stripped down, then each album becomes bloated.
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Sex on the brain is the wrong place to have it.
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Life isn't all me. I have a family to support. I can't rob them of a good life simply because I want to play something.
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The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.
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When using colors to recreate a general harmony of tones in nature, one loses it by painfully exact imitation. One keeps it by recreating in an equivalent color range, and that may not be exactly, or far from exactly, like the model.
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I wish that all different types of people of all races and all upbringings were all equally represented in this industry that influences so many people.
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I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on.
