Richard Manuel Quotes
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I applied to only one college - the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania - and was fortunate to be accepted. After graduation, I headed to Wall Street and worked as I had dreamed.
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I think Dilbert is actually a radical strip.
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I've never got into debt and I've always been in control of my taxes and VAT, but having four children costs a lot. They are my weakness.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Living here in North America - I have been Americanized. When I go back home now, there are things that I have far less tolerance for in South Africa. We've come such a long way in terms of race relations and the economy as well as people's willingness to move on. There are still a lot of things that are frustrating about being in South Africa.
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We have the American people properly concerned about the future of our country and the world.
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I actually did not have a date to my prom. I ended up taking a friend.
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I'm very good friends with my former coaches. We speak on the phone a lot.
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Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.
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I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.
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When I look at my body of work, I've played a lot of characters who are morally conflicted - 'I'm right, no I'm wrong, I don't know what to do!' I want to play more characters who don't care as much, and who aren't as measured. They are what they are, no apologies.
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I do a lot of working out, but I haven't been kicking for a while, so one time I was rehearsing a spinning roundhouse and darned near threw out my leg.
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Art and activism seem to go together naturally, the idea being that if you're an entertainer, you can have a voice, and if you have a voice, you can make a difference. But if I were not an actress, I would still try to extend myself beyond my little micro-universe of my job, family and personal joy.
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When writing screenplays, it's a matter of remembering to leave off the page anything and everything that doesn't appear on the screen.
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I don't know if I have any feelings about psychics. I never really met any.
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There's nothing new under the sun, right? I think the most modern thing you can do with designing is just taking something that's existing and introducing it in a way that hasn't been done.
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The other classes of which society was composed were, first, freemen, owners of small portions of land, independent, though they sometimes voluntarily became the vassals of their more opulent neighbors, whose power was necessary for their protection.
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The way through the world is more difficult to find than the way beyond it.
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I love showing my scar on my tummy - it is shaped like a question mark.
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We had a segment called Tampon Tuesdays that I was very proud of; that was hilarious because there are a lot of women's issues out there that a lot of people don't know about because they're not women, and they don't have to go through them.
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If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.
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I play patterns. I'll make up a pattern and just play it.
