Austin Ainge Quotes
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I cannot drink or do anything that changes the mind.
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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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I think a person has to just be herself.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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I hope to get out before they start football next year.
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Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.
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I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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Once computers can program, they basically take over technological progress because already, today, the majority of technological progress is run by software, by programming.
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Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance to do.
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Before we had airplanes and astronauts, we really thought that there was an actual place beyond the clouds, somewhere over the rainbow. There was an actual place, and we could go above the clouds and find it there.
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Before Booker T. Washington, we have small business owners but we do not have a philosopher of black entrepreneurship, and that's what Washington was.
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All of my life I have stayed away from violence and the instruments of violence, and have seen a legal, democratic struggle as the only means to achieve change.
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People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all settled, you know? You're going to be fine. I know that if I'm not confused, and really afraid, my work isn't going to be any good.
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I always start a play by calling the characters A, B, and C.
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The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends.
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You can never predict a hit or a flop, but it's about what you are happy doing as an actor. Every actor comes with his or her own mindset.
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I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.
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A funeral eulogy is a belated plea for the defense delivered after the evidence is all in.
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My father is an Algerian, proud of who he is and I am proud that my father is Algerian.
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The sun in my life, it is gone, it is gone
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The truth is, I just don't have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty.
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The foreigners come out here always to teach, whereas they had much better learn, for, in everything but wits and knowledge, the Arab is generally the better man of the two.
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The more aspects of life that can be moved from private reign to public realm, the better it is for politics.
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You have to be better than your problems.
