Carlo Alban Quotes
I find myself feeling like Oscar in 'Sweat' just by virtue of cleaning the tables, wiping the bar down and picking up everybody's glasses - and not making eye contact, because that's the character. These are working-class, blue-collar people. These are the people I grew up with. It gets under your skin.
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Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
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I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
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Country music tells stories, and I've always loved to tell stories.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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When you feel stuck in a hard time, jump-start a pro-change attitude by letting go of possessions that no longer work for you - like old clothes and old shoes.
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I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
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It is every intelligent man's experience that evildoing recoils on the doer sooner or later.
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By 1865, all Southern women - the happily and regrettably single, the perpetually engaged, the wives and widows - had tired of the war. The Confederacy was shrinking, and the morale of its remaining men shrinking with it.
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Caste is not a physical object like a wall of bricks or a line of barbed wire which prevents the Hindus from co-mingling and which has, therefore, to be pulled down. Caste is a notion; it is a state of the mind.
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I did Broadway shows. And I started realizing that this is actually how I'm going to make my living. So maybe I should try to do television and film and make a better living and get an occasional residual check so I can pay a mortgage someday.
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People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.
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I think sometimes I should do more carousing, because I don't do much and maybe it would be fun occasionally. It's hard for me to have fun and I'm a serious thinker and a searcher and funny from the front.
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I think most people try to get others to see through their eyes.
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But I think primarily, it's the fans that make this race.
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The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are triggered by the locations where we shoot.
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Unless generosity of spirit prevails among men, there can never be upon earth an ideal life.
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I've been on plenty of sets where I have not liked the people that I work with, but you suck it up and be professional.
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With rue my heart is ladenFor golden friends I had,For many a rose-lipt maidenAnd many a lightfoot lad.By brooks too broad for leapingThe lightfoot boys are laid;The rose-lipt girls are sleepingIn fields where roses fade.
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I think anybody can do any of these if they train. I don't recommend it, but anybody could do it if there was a need.
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A lot of people use social media to share mundane things or for self-glorification. I try to use it to share interesting things with people.
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I find myself feeling like Oscar in 'Sweat' just by virtue of cleaning the tables, wiping the bar down and picking up everybody's glasses - and not making eye contact, because that's the character. These are working-class, blue-collar people. These are the people I grew up with. It gets under your skin.
