Ring Lardner Quotes
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.
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I like not to feel that all my eggs are in one basket, or I get nervous.
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Everybody feels up sometimes, they feel down sometimes, sometimes they feel sideways, sometimes they feel weird. And the beauty of music is you can express all those different feelings in all the different songs you write. And hopefully, people can identify with those.
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It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.
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Music is not a work for me - it's a form of meditation, and you don't need to work hard for it.
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With experience, you improve. I'm a better player now, more complete than I was when I was player of the year.
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I used to be able to think. My brain's circuits were all connected, and I had spark, a quickness of mind that let me function well in the world.
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I was a very shy, overly big, kind of creepy-looking kid.
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Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.
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I look for something that is highly unusual, involving ordinary people caught in extraordinary situations.
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My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.
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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
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David Lynch helped me be cool.
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Some people try to cyber bully me; they try to get to me with words, but that doesn't really work.
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I always try to find something I like about the bad guys and then try to find the mistakes and the flaws in the good guys.
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So there is a personal sense of style for a given work - I don't like a general style, but every work has its own style, and I want to create a style for every work.
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I am just back from South Sudan, one of the world's most fragile nations. For years, I have been moved by the kind people who maintain hope that they will live to see peace. My heart has ached for them, as they have endured pain and violence that make such hope feel out of reach.
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Some mistakes are too much fun to make only once.
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My book 'The Exciting Adventures of Boo' was first published when I was fifteen. It is a children's book with ten different stories. In each story, the main character Boo learns a lesson - one of the ten most important lessons I learned as a kid. I also donated all the money from my books I personally sold to my local ASPCA Animal Shelter.
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Also, getting the chance to play a supporting part meant that I didn't have to do as much as the protagonist, such as running around telling the story. [As the protagonist] you push the story whereas, paradoxically, as a character part, you have a chance to explore some of the nuance and some of the more complicated aspects of a character.
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There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen.
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An optimist is a girl who mistakes a bulge for a curve.
