Chilly Gonzales (Jason Charles Beck) Quotes
To me, a performance is a military operation; it requires so much planning, and then ripping up the plan the minute you get there because you have no idea what the audience is feeling. I'm very much an entertainer, and sensitive to the audience's perception of me. I often have to do unexpected things, even for myself.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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I have this data bank garbage can in the back of my head that is an emotional collection of events that have occurred in my life.
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My books have contradictions all the time - and people are fine with that.
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In Europe, the big word is tolerance. You tolerate everything.
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I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
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I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.
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A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up.
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I'm a reporter – if I don't interview someone, I don't have much to say, and I definitely can't just sit down and knock out 800 words on any subject you give me.
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What's coming will come and we'll just have to meet it when it does.
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You know, the bigger you get and the more success you have, the more people you can fill your house with to tell you how great you are. You can do that.
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Imagine a limitless expanse of water: above and below, before and behind, right and left, everywhere there is water. In that water is placed a jar filled with water. There is water inside the jar and water outside, but the jar is still there. The 'I' is the jar.
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He writes the kind of music you whistle on the way into the theater.
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Give hope (the magic ingredient for success) - you will have hope and be made hopeful.
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Obit anus, abit onus.
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In the most self-protective of ways, I don't think about the reader when I'm writing - I just think about the story.
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Stage is so important because it teaches me how to convey character with words - how to convey how a character reacts by the way they appear on stage. I can usually tell a playwright from someone who has never written for the stage. Did the character work? Did the dialogue reveal who the character is?
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I got briefly mistaken for someone who might be good in bed, which was very, very good.
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I knew as a kid that every decision I was going to be making, I would have full responsibility. So I knew I had to do what's right and protect myself, you know?
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In a big picture sense, it's more national prestige that we're risking. You know, we are proud of our space program, but as we were talking earlier, the average American doesn't think that much about it right now. So, it may seem like something we could just give up and not really worry about it, but I think it starts creeping into the national psyche. If American astronauts have to hitch rides with the Russians or other nations in the future.
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I can't speak for the Kathryn Stockett, but I would guess that she feels proud of the progress the South has made because, growing up, she experienced a very different Mississippi than the one that exists today.
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Hawaiian to me is a feeling of getting somewhere, without stepping on anybodys toes, without causing friction with anybody.
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Canada and the United States are also working at the World Trade Organization and in our own hemisphere with negotiations for a Trade Area of the Americas to try to help countries create a positive climate for investment and trade.
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To me, a performance is a military operation; it requires so much planning, and then ripping up the plan the minute you get there because you have no idea what the audience is feeling. I'm very much an entertainer, and sensitive to the audience's perception of me. I often have to do unexpected things, even for myself.
