Ricky Jay Quotes
I wouldn't want to try to make a living as an actor. I think actors... I give them a lot of credit for what they go through, but putting myself on the line like that would make me crazy.
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Of course, my faith has a lot to do with being able to be public without being a public nuisance.
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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Ask your agent to set up a meeting with either your editor or the marketing department of the house or both so you can find out what they're doing, what they aren't, and what you can do to help.
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I think there's no greater healing power than music.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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Sure, I'll have characters drop in and out of books but the main cast of characters always changes. Maybe I'm wrong but I think if had the same joe detective guy or gal, I wouldn't write them as well; I wouldn't do as good a job.
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I want to play for my country, play for everybody, and I want to be there. I just feel like I have so many feelings and I want to play in the Olympics and feel how special if I can win that tournament.
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The motivation should come from regulatory enforcement, but enforcement is weak, and environmental litigation is near to impossible. So there's an urgent need for extensive public participation to generate another kind of motivation.
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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
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Cotton was a force of nature. There's a poetry to it, hoeing and growing cotton.
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Every day, I wake up and say, 'Good Morning, Jesus.'
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When I sit down to write, I consider myself an artist.
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At the end of the day, Democrats go out and appeal to 30 percent of the far left; Republicans go out and appeal to 30 percent of the far right. Hey, there's a big middle ground here that's not represented. I think that, Bill Weld and myself, I think the Libertarian Party really occupies that ground.
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I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.
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Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.
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We live in a society where nothing is sacred.
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What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
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New Hampshire is one of the birthplaces of American freedom and independence - a place with a love and a passion for liberty.
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I had no idea what I was signing up for. I auditioned for some random character. I knew the sides were fake, but what they were trying to capture was an emotional toughness and a woundedness. I knew I liked the character. I didn't know who the character was, but I liked the spirit of the character.
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What I would like to see is sufficiently good education and health services being delivered to Aboriginal people so that they are prepared and ready to leave and join the economic mainstream if that's their choice.
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I had incorrectly, for all of my adult life until 2008, believed the biggest voting myth that exists - that ex-felons cannot vote.
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Ontologically, chocolate raises profoundly disturbing questions: Does not chocolate offer natural revelation of the goodness of the Creator just as chilies disclose a divine sense of humor? Is the human born with an innate longing for chocolate? Does the notion of chocolate preclude the concept of free will?
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I wouldn't want to try to make a living as an actor. I think actors... I give them a lot of credit for what they go through, but putting myself on the line like that would make me crazy.
