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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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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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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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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About the 'movers and the shakers' of the government These people are the first line of defense when it comes to the terrorist threat, but the word 'shit' makes them cry. 'Why didn't he say poopie?! Why didn't he say poopie?!'
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Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.
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As an actor, you think to yourself, 'I want to do good work,' but you also want the work that you do to make an impact in some way.
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Call the roll in your memory of conspicuously successful [business] giants and, if you know anything about their careers, you will be struck by the fact that almost every one of them encountered inordinate difficulties sufficient to crush all but the gamest of spirits. Edison went hungry many times before he became famous.
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It's incumbent on us to reach beyond the confines of the institutions that traditionally produce art and find new ways to get it to the people.
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Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.
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People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.
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I wanna be in action movies, I wanna be the tough guy... I wanna scare people.
