Benny Urquidez (The Jet) Quotes
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If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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Beijing, much as it has done with Hong Kong, persists in equating 'people power' with instability.
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I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
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New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.
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I think anybody would have to be with out common sense to think there weren't aliens. There are billions of planets, and I am convinced Earth is not the only one that's inhabited. It would be quite an ego trip to think that. I think about it all the time.
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It's rare that I turn down a photo or autograph, because these are the people that support me, so why not support them. I love it and I invite it. I love what I do and the whole 'celebrity' life and all that.
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The best times I had on film sets were the times the director let me express myself, but those were rare.
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I love being in touch with my readers and fellow writers! It's just amazing to have such access to people.
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People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range of views.
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My father didn't know his real name. My father got his name from his grandfather and he got his name from his grandfather and he got it from the slave master.
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The best description of the Old Testament that I heard was that it starts out as mythology, then it becomes legend, then it becomes history. In the mythological period - there is a distinct mythological period in the Old Testament, where the time spans are impossible and really just imagined.
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I want to have a career that evolves as I go on.
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'It’s so dreadfully easy - killing people… And you begin to feel that it doesn’t matter… That it’s only you that matters! It’s dangerous - that.'
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I'd seen the current stage production and the 1975 production of Chicago. I liked them both very much, but I didn't use them necessarily as inspiration.
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I am confident that this legislature will rise above partisan bickering, especially after the public promises its members made last fall, and that it will demonstrate a high capacity for civil service.
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One of the ways that you reveal character is by getting a character into a situation and seeing what they do.
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Grinding is a mindset and a willingness and commitment to work at it.
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The game is if the orchestra can hear each other, they play better. If they play better and there's a tangible feeling between the orchestra and the audience, if they feel each other, the audience responds and the orchestra feels it.
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I constantly remind myself that there are terrible movies out there. I try to watch them, some of them, to give myself an understanding of what not to do.
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The practice of law sharpens the mind by making it narrow.
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The only way a musician can express feelings is playing.
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I like to travel by myself.
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What you practice, is what you’ll do.
