Washington Irving Quotes
The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
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For me, acting is becoming naked in front of people, you know? And when you know in the back of your mind somebody is testing you, you cannot really bare yourself. That's a feeling I always have when I'm auditioning.
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When you're not under a 'series regular' contract, and other jobs come up, you try to juggle everything.
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I find it difficult to turn down an entrepreneur who's both passionate and knowledgeable about their space.
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Instead of personal security, citizens are afraid to walk down the street in Jerusalem.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.
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The life of an actor is very hard irrespective of the continent you are in. It is doubly hard when you are only eligible for minority roles.
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Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
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Anything that's given to you can be taken away from you at any time.
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Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.
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You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.
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We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.
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For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.
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I voted for you during your last election.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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Music is really nothing if you think about it - it only becomes something when somebody listens to it. And then it becomes uncontrollable.
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I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.
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When you give in to aversion and anger, it’s as though, having decided to kill someone by throwing him into a river, you wrap your arms around his neck, jump into the water with him, and you both drown. In destroying your enemy, you destroy yourself as well.
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Capitalism proceeds through creative destruction. What is created is capitalism in a 'new and improved' form - and what is destroyed is self-sustaining capacity, livelihood and dignity of its innumerable and multiplied 'host organisms' into which all of us are drawn/seduced one way or another.
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
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One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.
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The easiest thing to do, whenever you fail, is to put yourself down by blaming your lack of ability for your misfortunes.
