William Overgard Quotes
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The Marine Corps is some of the best acting training you could have. Having that responsibility for people's lives, suddenly time becomes a really valuable commodity and you want to make the most of it. And for acting, you just have to do the work, just keep doing it.
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I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.
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Artists forget than the first purpose of a comic character is to convey emotion. Everything else, like realism, or other kinds of virtuosity, is an optional extra. If you sacrifice expression for the sake of other concerns, you're putting the cart before the horse.
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I'm the worst rider. I'm a terrible rider. Me and horses are not a good mix. For some reason, people are always trying to get me on a horse in a movie.
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A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but, one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still.
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'Winner' is a commercial family entertainer with a strong emotional core. Teju couldn't hold back his tears after watching the movie. The horse race portions were mostly shot in Turkey.
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When you're taking a fence on a horse, you don't think much; your body does all the thinking, and you're over or you're not over. It's much the same when you are doing a tricky thing with a pen. There are times when I'm writing very, very fast.
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For what the horse does under compulsion, as Simon also observes, is done without understanding; and there is no beauty in it either, any more than if one should whip and spur a dancer.
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President Obama is riding the wrong horse on energy.
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No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers.
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A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.
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A woman's love is like the morning dew. It's just as likely to settle on a horse turd as a rose.
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What an excellent horse do they lose, for want of address and boldness to manage him! … I could manage this horse better than others do.
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If a man works like a horse for his money, there are a lot of girls anxious to take him down the bridal path.
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I don't think that there's any Marine out there that says she can't do the job because she's a female.
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Whether it's in an inner-city school or a rural community, I want those students to have a chance to take A.P. biology and A.P. physics and marine biology.
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Nobody can legitimately claim to be a marine ecologist and conservationist while continuing to eat fish. It is the ultimate form of hypocrisy.
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Success is like a wild horse. If you do not know how to handle it, it will throw you off and look for another rider who can handle it well.
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I really admire people who have a natural sense of style. They have a super power.
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The abstract analysis of the world by mathematics and physics rests on the concepts of space and time.
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I'm always writing at night - things I would change, things I would do differently. When I write a note, it sticks in my head differently.
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There was nothing postracial about my experience, and there still isn't.
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But the very act of pausing in a busy day to pray is an act of weakening pride in my life, acknowledging that I am a dependent creature. I am not self sufficient.
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If there's anything more arrogant than a Marine on a horse, it's one in a plane.
