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've come to realize I'm more spiritual than I am religious. What I mean by this: As far as praying to God goes, I'm more about looking inside for inner guidance - tapping into our own abundantly powerful inner resources - which, I suppose, is where some might say God does indeed reside.
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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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Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.
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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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The public's perception of your show is what it is, and you don't get to complain how people perceive your show or talk about it.
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'Latina' has become part of the Becky G family, and I feel very proud to say that.
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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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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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When you constantly hear people talking about going the distance, going the distance, you can't help but wonder about it. I learned a lesson: next time I will fight my fight without that doubt.
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I was brought up in a very small town in upstate New York.
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You grow up Latin in this country and you're a third class citizen from the word go, and so you have to deal with everything around you from that point of view and trying to feel entitled.
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The sign had been put up out of suspicion and a guilty conscience: 'Military zone. Filming or photography prohibited'.
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The Persians are called the French of the East; we will call the Arabs Oriental Italians. A gifted noble people; a people of wildstrong feelings, and of iron restraint over these: the characteristic of noblemindedness, of genius.
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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.
