Haley Joel Osment Quotes
My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.
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I like going after good material, well-written material.
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just as hungry as the dog.
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I don't have any problem with being the guy whose album people put on when they're feeling sad.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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When I was little it was a great time for film-making, with stuff like Mike Nichols' 'Silkwood.' The films you see in that pre-secondary-school stage stay with you in a very particular way.
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I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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Twitter is an amazing thing; it brings footballers closer to the fans because so many of them are on there. I was cynical about it to begin with, but I have been converted.
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Our children and grandchildren are not going to have the same standard of living unless we educate that workforce.
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I introduce her as the love of my life everywhere that we go. She introduces me as her current husband. So you can see how the relationship kinda works here.
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Wart hogs should sue for libel. It is a terrible name and they are fine fellows and devoted family men and it is rare to see one by himself; the little woman and the kiddies are usually close at hand.
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The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
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I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
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Publishers vet books, and they do a good job keeping out the low quality. But they also miss some good quality.
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I think R. Kelly's range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like he's not challenging himself.
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What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.
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Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,' people are literally just blowing other people up. Hey, let's protect your country from your couch while eating your sandwich.
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No one escapes from the past without bearing some of its burdens.
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When I was a postdoc, I jotted every fresh thought on a three-by-five card and kept them in a card catalogue.
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Broadway has been my dream since I was 5 years old.
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Indians do not like Indian teachers; they prefer foreigners, but there is a huge demand for Indian teachers around the world.
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When you're involved in those big-budget movies, there's a lot of hype: 'Oh this is gonna be a big hit!' And 'A Christmas Story' wasn't. It came and went and was a big disappointment at the box office.
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My dad is Chinese, and my mom is a white American, and they married only ten years after the United States Supreme Court ruled that it was illegal to ban mixed marriages. Imagine that. Marriages between people of different races - now common and accepted - were illegal in many states up until the late Sixties.
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My dad never told me that when you audition, you might not get the role. He wanted to wait until my first disappointment to tell me.
