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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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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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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The true humanist maintains a just balance between sympathy and selection.
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There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
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Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
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I'm a sex addict. It's my cross to bear. It's a real disease with doctors and medicine and everything!
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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.
