Barry Venison Quotes
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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I get bored easily.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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The level of confidence women are able to build in women-only groups is important.
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Looking back... it's hard to understand what all the fuss was about as things changed in just a few years. When you look at all the things that have happened in the world, it seems very small.
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There are lots of things I am not good at. I'm not that good a singer. And I'm a good dad but a lousy husband because I work far too much and am not at home as much as I would like.
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A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, 'Just call my name to see where I am,' because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.
Gail Devers -
When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition.
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It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.
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People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war or before an election.
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After the final no there comes a yes and on that yes the future of the world hangs.
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Television itself is an intimate medium. It's in your house. You're visiting with these people... Not everybody's going to like it, just like not everybody likes everybody on the playground. I mean, that's life - especially if your job is to just go out there and be yourself.
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My entire life, I've always known that I wanted to be a performer, but I didn't know exactly how, where or when. I never learned or studied the craft, formally. I grew up doing martial arts and playing piano. But, something inside of me always said that I was going to do this, as far back as I can remember.
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Amazon thrived because it implemented the online bookstore idea better than any of its early rivals did, not because it was the only company to have the idea or the first company to have the idea. It continues to grow only because it keeps trying to improve on the details of the idea and the way it puts it into practise.
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'Postcards' was just a way of slapping myself in the face and saying, 'You can do anything! Just go for it!'
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I dread karaoke. I hate karaoke. I can't sing - that is why.
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I need both to feel good: the energy of the city and the quietness of the country.
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We're pretty interested in microbial communities on-board space stations. It's a closed-loop system. Our water is recycled; our air is recycled.
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Thanks so much to all the fans. To all our team, to all our wives, especially, that believe in us and that we come home to, and everybody here that's given us a shot.
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They'll be absolutely ready to go. We won't fool anybody. Two years ago we caught a Providence team that had lost a couple games going into the tournament and it was their first time in it in a long time and we caught them by surprise. Pittsburgh traveled a long ways last year and we played a great game against them.
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Why are women always described as 'desperate,' while men are just... irrational?
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Like so many of the current Chelsea team, Zola is unique.
