Walter D. Asmus Quotes
I'm convinced that theatre is a horrible business. Make this the headline. You have to be on the spot every night as an actor. You are damn lonesome standing out there.
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I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.
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I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.
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I love standing on the pitch too much to focus on anything else - if I want to be a coach or something.
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Everybody's lonesome for somebody else but nobody's lonesome for me. Everybody's thinking about somebody else but nobody thinks about me. When the time rolls around for me to lay down and die. I bet I'll have to go and hire me someone to cry. Everybody's lonesome for somebody else. Nobody is lonesome for me.
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...we both saw something we liked, a willingness to have no walls, or maybe just an unwillingness to keep them standing.
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A person will not buy from you until he is convinced that you are a friend and are acting in his best interest. You must make this clear.
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The presence of hundreds of books had finally convinced Hermione that what they were doing was right.
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I am strongly convinced that the people or society is the best and the most unerring critic.
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What is the difference between someone who is convinced and one who is deceived? None, if he is well deceived.
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The world dread nothing so much as being convinced of their errors.
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I became convinced that noncooperation with evil is as much a moral obligation as is cooperation with good.
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I am convinced that it is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the world. Our involvement in the war in Vietnam has torn up the Geneva Accord. It has strengthened the military-industrial complex; it has strengthened the forces of reaction in our nation. It has put us against the self-determination of a vast majority of the Vietnamese people, and put us in the position of protecting a corrupt regime that is stacked against the poor.
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Out, damned spot! Out, I say!
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The more I study the world, the more I am convinced of the inability of brute force to create anything durable.
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He had the vague sense of standing on a threshold, the crossing of which would change everything.
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I'm convinced that in a healthy society, artistic norms should be constantly under question which is not of course, to deny the need for continuity.
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The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love.
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And yet I am convinced that man will never give up true suffering- that is, destruction and chaos. Why, suffering is the sole root of consciousness.
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I understand that you can never have the whole picture; inevitably, there’s stuff you don’t know, can’t know. But when it comes to Cameron I always want more than I have, would like to be able to take hold of at least one or two more pieces, if only because I’m convinced there are parts of myself inside them.
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It is amazing how much we can endure when we are convinced there is a purpose to our struggle.
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In fact, my courage and my bravery at a young age was the thing I was bullied for, a kind of 'Who do you think you are?'
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Every day when I sit down to play, I learn something new.
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I often feel trapped. I often feel like I'm trying to escape some trap, be it a way of thinking, a compulsion, or a way of life. I believe this persistent feeling comes from childhood traumas that stripped away my power. The effect, though, the resulting persistent desire to stretch out of confinement even when confinement is inevitable, is a gift.
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I'm convinced that theatre is a horrible business. Make this the headline. You have to be on the spot every night as an actor. You are damn lonesome standing out there.
