Ricky Schroder Quotes
I worked with creative people who were very demanding of me, and they helped me reach performances that I never could have gotten on my own without being pushed and having trust in them. And so I know the best way to get the best performance of an actor, and that's not to coddle them or to baby them. It's to help them; it's to push them.
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I was perhaps about 10 years old when a local farmer rang us up to say he had found a young badger and would we take it in. So we did; it was a female called Bessy and she lived in the boiler room. She was extremely intelligent, had a very low opinion of cats but loved the dogs. She was pretty well trained; she went in the car.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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In the end, you have to write like you're not afraid of the critics.
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Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
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In 2013, a great national coalition came together to compel Congress to deny Barack Obama authority to take us to war in Syria.
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.
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Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
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I have a massive phobia for schedules and calendars. I need people to tell me where I need to be. I can't bear to see it in black and white. I think it's a fear of being pinned down.
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It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.
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The smells of slow cooking spread around the house and impart a unique warmth matched only by the flavour of the food.
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You can't build an adaptable organization without adaptable people - and individuals change only when they have to, or when they want to.
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After the Tiananmen Massacre, I felt compelled not only to continue writing but to actively resist the restrictions placed on freedom of speech. I set up the publishing company in Hong Kong, with offices in Shenzhen in mainland China, and managed to publish works of fiction, philosophy, and politics by unapproved authors.
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And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty.
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This industry is 90 percent business, 10 percent talent.
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I only want to protect animals from barbarous, cruel, inhuman and backward rituals.
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I think sometimes an artist can really lose sight of what made them popular in the first place.
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We must reinforce argument with results.
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I never sought to play monsters in films.
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In general, shorter is better. If you can encapsulate your idea into a single captivating sentence, you're halfway home.
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I think anytime there's a big show on a network, people are also looking for what's the indie, stepchild version of this, the real DIY version?
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I gained the weight on purpose for 'Little Nicky,' and it was one of those cases where I'd done a few roles where I looked the same way, and I wanted to be the roommate because I thought that was the funniest part for me.
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I worked with creative people who were very demanding of me, and they helped me reach performances that I never could have gotten on my own without being pushed and having trust in them. And so I know the best way to get the best performance of an actor, and that's not to coddle them or to baby them. It's to help them; it's to push them.
