Richard Strauss Quotes
The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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I think any time you have a super team, whether it's all men or all women or both, what you have are people with very unique strengths that aren't always totally compatible.
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I don't want to lose what I've won.
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Before 'Lucky Louie,' nobody would ever cast me to play a mom or a wife; nobody ever saw me in that role, which is weird, since that's who I really am.
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People work hard.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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We all have our own little thing, I think.
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I went to high school in Stockton, CA.
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If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
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I live in New York and got a call from my agent saying there was this new role on 'Mad Men,' it might be recurring and they're seeing people tomorrow. I said, 'OK, this is one of those things where you hedge your bets, use your miles and get on a plane.' I flew out Tuesday morning and got the job on a Wednesday.
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'The Voice' ignited a fire in me to be an artist and to be a country singer, but not winning ignited an even bigger fire, because I was just like, 'First of all, I know that I want this'; now I wanted it even more, 'cause I didn't know if I had a record deal.
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Who's not a fan of Don Williams? He's the gentle giant.
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One of Lady Antebellum's first big tours was opening up for Kenny Chesney.
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I am big into water sports and just being out on the water. That is second nature to me, being from Florida.
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'Catcher in the Rye' changed my life when I was a kid. I read it as I was a boy turning into a man, and I was so fascinated by the values. I believe in it.
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I have this famous joke that I use: Why was God able to create Heaven and Earth in seven days and seven nights? Because he didn't have installed customers and legacy technology to worry about.
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I try to begin with a strong grasp of my characters. Even if it's schematic, I need it clear in my head who these people are.
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There's nothing more, nothing better in life to wake up in the morning, look at yourself in the mirror, and feel comfortable with yourself and who you are.
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My dad's an actor, and my mum's a casting director and a writer.
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I want to say to you: Help yourself, so you can help someone else.
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I WOULD LIKE, to begin with, to say that though parents, husbands, children, lovers and friends are all very well, they are not dogs. In my day and turn having been each of the above,—except that instead of husbands I was wives,—I know what I am talking about, and am well acquainted with the ups and downs, the daily ups and downs, the sometimes almost hourly ones in the thin-skinned, which seem inevitably to accompany human loves. Dogs are free from these fluctuations. Once they love, they love steadily, unchangingly, till their last breath. That is how I like to be loved. Therefore I will write of dogs.
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The human voice is the most beautiful instrument of all, but it is the most difficult to play.
