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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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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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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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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We must reinforce argument with results.
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People who take risks like Amy Winehouse and Norah Jones take a second to catch on, but eventually they do because they're different and honest in a musical landscape that's not always like that.
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I went to a private school in Singapore and they had an incredible arts program. Every day I was doing something artistic.
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I wasn't interested in holding onto the evidence of things.
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For God's will gave men their form, their essence and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will.
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While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom.
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I believe every woman in the Bill Cosby case.
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I admire Ridley Scott, and I'm thrilled to be making a movie for him.
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I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.
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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.
