Avey Tare (David Michael Portner) Quotes
Hell is a swamp, to me - not as something fiery, but as something dank, moist, and wet.
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As an actor, you read so many scripts and parts written for Asian-specific characters, and you see a lot of stereotypes and a lot of one-note characters, especially in comedy.
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Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.
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A Persian army being then subject to great inconveniences, for their horses are tied and generally shackled to prevent them from running away, and if an alarm happens, a Persian has the housing to fix, his horse to bridle, and his corslet to put on before he can mount.
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I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.
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What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.
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There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.
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I've always had this sneaking suspicion that I get a kick out of the insecurity.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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I love Sunday-morning drives. I'll be up at 6 A.M., get a cup of coffee, and head out.
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It should not be the government running the economy.
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The directors that I end up having a really good time with are the ones that understand the fluidity of the medium and are interested in catching lightning in a bottle.
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In the aftermath of a marriage, you feel helpless and hapless.
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I'm in a complete state of panic before I begin something because I'm sure that it's going to be a complete disaster. I'm going to do a worse job than anybody could ever imagine anybody doing on the planet Earth.
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Often I am asked if there is any such thing as a female serial killer.
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Every time that God navigates my ship, there's nothing cerebral going on. There's very little thought. It's almost as if I have the directions. Every time I try to do it myself, I'm conjuring up my own concoction and trying.
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There's blame to go around but in the end, the federal government is our last defense and it's the failure of the federal government that has people in this country worried.
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We loved each other with a premature love, marked by a fierceness that so often destroys adult lives.
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Everything has a sort of double meaning for me, there's the ordinary everyday meaning of things, and the imaginary meaning about it all, and I wanted to bring these things together, and in this first big Resurrection of mine you have a good example of this sort of thing.
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Hell is a swamp, to me - not as something fiery, but as something dank, moist, and wet.
