Richard Schiff Quotes
I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called 'Goose and Tomtom' by David Rabe, and somebody saw it and the next thing I know I'm doing the table read of the film version of 'Glengarry Glen Ross' with Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon - one of the great films of our generation.
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I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.
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Very much alone in my work, I am almost jealous of it.
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You know, you can have someone who's the very best at something, but if there's not that kind of chemistry, collaborating is not going to amount to anything.
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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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No civilization other than that which is Christian, is worth seeking or possessing.
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I got a feeling about political correctness. I hate it. It causes us to lie silently instead of saying what we think.
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Watching Republicans in Washington is like watching lemmings, if lemmings jumped into cesspools instead of off cliffs.
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If there is only one culture all over the world, that's not a good thing.
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Once you break someone of the habit of up-talking, they can start to see immediate improvement in their careers.
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I love to perform at benefits and charity fundraisers.
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I mean, I've never really had much security, to be honest.
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I feel like Josh, Michelle and Adam were all team players, who wanted to be a part of an ensemble.
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I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.
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I started out as a high school teacher in inner-city Chicago and realized quite quickly that my students weren't that motivated.
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I had the humble beginnings. I was doing comedy in laundry mats in 1992, literally where I would bring a little gorilla amp and a lapel mike and just start performing.
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Having children is like having a bowling alley installed in your brain.
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I'm an angry person, angrier than most people would imagine, I get flashes of anger. What works for me is working out when it's useful to use that anger.
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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In any case, frequent punishments are a sign of weakness or slackness in the government. There is no man so bad that he cannot be made good for something. No man should be put to death, even as an example, if he can be left to live without danger to society.
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Horror and supernatural novels give you a lot of what you look for in a crime novel, just with a twist that was very fresh for me as a reader.
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I don't think anybody deserves to be defined totally by his enemies.
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Each generation wants new symbols, new people, new names. They want to divorce themselves from their predecessors.
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I was doing a play out in L.A. 20-some-odd years ago called 'Goose and Tomtom' by David Rabe, and somebody saw it and the next thing I know I'm doing the table read of the film version of 'Glengarry Glen Ross' with Al Pacino and Jack Lemmon - one of the great films of our generation.
