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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I don't get upset with anyone after being hit in a game.
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He reached out and pushed some hair behind her ears. The gesture was tender, but it hit her with an unexpected force, like when you're in the ocean and a wave hits you. It's so soft and coll that it surprised you that it has such strength.
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The second-most abundant biopolymer on the planet is called chitin, and some 100 million tons of it are produced every year by organisms such as shrimps, crabs, scorpions, and butterflies. We thought if we could tune its properties, we could generate structures that are multifunctional out of a single part.
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It's not empirically wrong to say that Washington isn't working for the American people and Washington does too many things for powerful special interests and it's broken.
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Obviously, I'm still building a name and reputation for myself. The stigmas that come with my past will remain there for quite some time, but I'm not afraid to challenge those things, and I never have been.
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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.
