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• Everyone can do a character the way they want to do it, unless the director tells them not to, which isn't very common. I like to do my characters, if it's not specific in the script, as myself.

  

  Barret Oliver
  • Character
  • Want
  • Myself

• You have to enjoy it. It is not going to happen every year, so this is the year that it is happening and we have got to go out there and enjoy it.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • You
  • Enjoy
  • Year

• I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.

  

  Eddie Murphy
  • Country
  • Think
  • Song

• I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Business
  • Best
  • New

• Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Life
  • Music
  • Believe

• Never give up on what you really want to do. The person with big dreams is more powerful than the one with all the facts.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Up
  • Want
  • Powerful

• I can't remember my dreams more than a couple of seconds after I wake up. It's frustrating because sometimes I dream that I'm watching a really good movie.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Up
  • Good
  • Remember

• I started sailing because I had to stop playing tennis so much, as I had bad knees.

  

  Hannah Mills
  • Bad
  • Stop
  • Tennis

• Eventually there are going to be chips in brains. Imagine if you could just buy knowledge and download it into your head instead of having to learn it. Like in 'The Matrix.' Imagine all the years saved!

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Knowledge
  • Learn
  • Brains

• Life is brutal that way...the loss of irrecoverable moments amid trivia and distraction.

  

  Dan Simmons
  • Life
  • Moments

• It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable.

  

  Isaac Asimov

• My girl has gone, and said goodbye.Don't you cry, hold your head up high.Don't give up, give love one more try,'Cause there's a right girl for every guy.

  

  Smokey Robinson
  • Up
  • High
  • Guy

• Barometer, n. An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

• A poet can feel free, in my estimation, to write a poem for himself. Or a painter can paint a painting for himself. You can write a short story for yourself. But for me, comedy by its nature is communal. If other people don't get it, I'm not sure why you are doing it.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key
  • People
  • Why
  • Nature

• Documents create a paper reality we call proof.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Reality

• The House of Representatives provides a special, nonpartisan staff of lawyers, called Legislative Counsel, who are experts in various areas of the law.

  

  Jared Polis
  • House
  • Law

• I can hang with the dudes because I love beef and baseball and driving fast and flirting. I understand where men are coming from, and I'm interested in typically male endeavors. But I can also wear the short skirt and cheerlead.

  

  Elizabeth Banks
  • Men
  • Baseball
  • Driving

• I don't think I'm afraid of anything.

  

  Louis Theroux

• The Abbey always reminds me of that old toast, 'Above lofty timbers, the walls around are bare, echoing to our laughter, as though the dead were there.'

  

  Garrett Fort
  • Laughter

• Imagine a revised edition of Shakespeare... a big, thick book with an elegant cover... You open it and find that there are no pages, just an empty box of space. On the back wall of the box is a small mirror. You look into it, see yourself, and now you know all you need to know about Shakespeare.

  

  Carter Ratcliff
  • Book
  • Yourself
  • Mirror

• If the human race wants to go to hell in a basket, technology can help it get there by jet.

  

  Charles Mengel Allen
  • Help
  • Technology

• I photograph continuously, often without a good idea or strong feelings. During this time the photos are nearly all poor, but I believe they develop my seeing and help later on in other photos. I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.

  

  Harry Callahan
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• If you don t know where you are, a map won't help.

  

  Watts Humphrey
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