Charles Melville Hays Quotes
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Never stand still. Only stand still enough to learn, and once you stop learning in that stance, move off. Always keep yourself engaged, in theater, in whatever job you can get. If you can't get an acting job, then go backstage. Or take tickets. But be around actors because that is where you will primarily learn.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.
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Wars have not solved anything in our region. They have only caused misery, suffering, bereavement, and hatred.
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He suddenly found himself on the precipice of utility.
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It really sucks to be the number two intelligent species on this planet; you can just ask gorillas.
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True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.
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No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the greater part of the members are poor and miserable. It is but equity, besides, that they who feed, cloath and lodge the whole body of the people, should have such a share of the produce of their own labour as to be themselves tolerably well fed, clothed, and lodged.
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I like to think I'm like the guy who goes to the office Christmas party Friday night, insults some people, but still has his job Monday morning.
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I know too much to be a sceptic and too little to be a dogmatist.
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I like reading biographies because most of them are slightly similar, and it's voyeuristic, looking into someone's life.
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Charm them with your presence as soon as they look at you.
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To make my meal, I go to the market and to the garden, and then I decide what I'm going to do. That's a great pleasure.
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I've hardly had an avant-garde career... If you're going to make a film, you have to try to make sure it comes out of a childlike passion, as if you're doing it for the first time.
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And if you have great writing, it's really easy, but if it's not so great and you have to work a little harder, I could tell where the work needed to be done but comedy is just fun.
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We started out as far to the left as we could.
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I enjoy the challenge of trying to say things beautifully. The message is secondary in that sense. Obviously, I have something that I want to say that's very, very important to me – but the process of actually crafting it is essential.
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My real dream is to have a whole, like, buy a whole piece of land. Imagine, like, a long driveway. Like, a cul de sac-type street, with maybe, like, seven houses. Me be right here. Have my mom be able to be right here. My brother over here. My girl's grandmother and family right here. Friends over there. That's my real dream.
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I had this 'War and Peace' thing of wanting to experience war as a kind of incredible human enterprise. I even applied to Officer Candidate School. Then the practical side of me kicked in and I thought, 'I really don't want to get drafted.' So I went down to the physical and checked every psychological disorder and drug on the medical history form.
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I would say that the whole way that I have approached the body is as a space, not a thing - not an object to be improved, idealised or whatever, but simply to be dwelt in.
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"Safety First" is "Safety Always."
