Richard Schiff Quotes
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Experience is a legitimate issue when John McCain raises it about Obama, and it's also legitimate for us to raise it about Palin.
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I really like this trend of songwriting that is honest and intelligent and serious and longing.
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I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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We have to balance the lineality of the known universe with the nonlineality of the unknown universe.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a path because you believe that's the only way for global harmony and peace.
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When I write a song, it comes from the heart and is based on a specific experience. You can't really say that one experience is greater than another, because all of your experiences take you through life on this journey.
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I only judge people in one way. I like them or I don't. But I don't have preconceived ideas.
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When I bought a collection of Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, I returned home with a bright enthusiasm to begin the long march into the Russian soul. Though I've failed to read either man to completion, they both helped me to imagine that my fictional South Carolina was as vast a literary acreage as their Russia.
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When I was nine, I was singing western swing: Roy Rogers and Patsy Cline. It got me noticed because no one my age was doing it, but it made me feel inferior because none of my friends could relate to it.
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The art market is global now, and there's becoming more of an international consensus about what constitutes good art.
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I guess I feel like it's a gift to meet those talented artists like George Lucas and Oliver Stone, Spike Lee and Richard Kelly. Even if it's a small role, it's a gift to be working that closely with them.
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There are some screw-ups headed your way. I wish I could tell you that there was a trick to avoiding the screw-ups... but they're coming for ya. It's a combination of life being unpredictable, and you being super dumb.
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I was one of the only people of color at my grade school and also my high school. It's weird recollecting on my childhood, I think, because my brothers are all white. We all share the same father but different mothers. I guess I kind of associated white, but I was occasionally reminded in a really negative way that I wasn't.
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Oh I haven't got a clue what to do with you,Jesus all the things my head is going through.
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Mo: I wish it were me instead of you.Sydney: Yeah. I'm getting the sodium pentothal. You have to go sit with my parents.
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I was lucky to get into drama school and become a professional actor. No-one ever mentioned the colour of my skin. It's only when I came out of RADA - the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art - that I suddenly realised people started to refer to me as a black actor.
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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another.
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Good therapy, gently but firmly, moves people out of denial and compartmentalization. It helps clients to develop richer inner lives and greater self-knowledge. It teaches clients to live harmoniously with others and it enhances Existential consciousness, and allows people to take responsibility for their effects on the world at large. For me , happiness is about appreciating what one has. Practically speaking,this means lowering expectations about what is fair, possible and likely. It means,finding pleasure in the ordinary.
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I wanna be in action movies, I wanna be the tough guy... I wanna scare people.
