Warren Adler Quotes
The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead.
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Immortality is really desirable, I guess. In terms of images, anyway.
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Let us go forward in this battle fortified by conviction that those who labour in the service of a great and good cause will never fail.
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Your subconscious's goal is to recreate unresolved childhood issues and then hopefully mend them.
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I am fascinated with religion or things that people believe in and question that. I think it's interesting.
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There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.
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My idea for 'BoneMan's Daughters' came from the loss of my own daughter when she left home to live with a monster at age 18. I wanted to throttle the man, but she was in love, so all I could do was hope, pray and cry.
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I'm as pure as the driven slush.
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Any movement at all that reduces disease, that reduces overdoses, that reduces property crime, that reduces violent crime, is good.
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Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.
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There are certain expectations that are put on you as a child actor, but mainly it's just turn up and say your lines with a lot of energy and a cute smile.
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A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.
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If you drop a line in the theatre, you can usually find a way round it. But you can't do that as easily on television - you're in the hands of too many people.
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There are horses people use for competition, and if they don't perform well or go lame, then people ask the vet to put them down to get the insurance money. And my vet knows I love horses, so he gives them to me.
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Lots of middle class people are running around pretending to be Cockney.
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A contented mind is the best source for trouble.
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Maybe some young girl seeing me on the Emmy stage may have meant something for them.
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What a character eats is a detail - like eye color or a favorite song. But food is also our lifeblood.
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I could care less about what people think. I'm a Devil Without A Cause.
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My current role model is Beyonce. She is such a strong woman. She can do everything. She has kept herself together and has balanced her life perfectly. She is a great singer, great dancer and a great looker and is now a good mother and wife.
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Writing songs was like my ticket to the world, I think.
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Every job is a blessing. Everyone has to take into account what is available. Are you paying rent, who do you get to work with? There are a lot of variables in the job. What I'm drawn to is things that I don't completely understand maybe, and want to get a better feel for it.
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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I'm aware that as much as people like hearing and listening to my music, it's also very therapeutic for me to be able to express myself some way - how I'm feeling, how I'm thinking, and just saying what's in my heart and on my mind. I need to do that to maintain my sanity.
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The first thing you have to learn when you go into the arts is to learn to cope with rejection. If you can't, you're dead.
