William Croswell Doane Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm working on my new album right now. Hopefully to get that out at the top of 2005, January 2005.
-
I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
-
Reddit is where anyone can come and tell their real story.
-
If you want to put out a million CDs and sell them and get them played on the radio, and even videos, or whatever, if that still exists, that kind of muscle can only come from a label like Columbia.
-
Acting for me is very therapeutic. It's my shrink.
-
I can't say that winning the Pen/Faulkner was a dream come true because I would never have dared to dream it.
-
All the children of the great men in Persia are brought up at court, where they have an opportunity of learning great modesty, and where nothing immodest is ever heard or seen.
-
I was surprised by how much I liked 'Hacksaw Ridge' and its depth.
-
Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie.
-
If I were to pray in Arabic, I'd pray to Allah. If I were to pray in English, I'd pray to God.
-
Of course, a law that is selectively used is in one aspect even worse than a law that is generally used because it puts a lot of power in individuals' hands and makes government a rule, not of laws, but of people.
-
The Australian way of affirmative action is setting goals and recognising discrimination and lack of opportunity and deciding to take action and setting some goals and targets. I guess I prefer that language to talking about quotas.
-
I try to cook dinner, but it's difficult when I'm working.
-
I've had the good fortune and blessing to run for the offices for which I really wanted to do the work.
-
Since I started acting, I had to quit a lot of bad habits. I've tried to stop biting my nails, because people always look at your nails during auditions. Truth be told, I still have a 'cheat nail,' but I've been cheating less and less.
-
If you want to be fully convinced of the abominations of slavery, go on a southern plantation, and call yourself a negro trader. Then there will be no concealment; and you will see and hear things that will seem to you impossible among human beings with immortal souls.
-
I was preppy, then suddenly switched around age 14. I asked my mother to go to this vintage store, and she let me buy a leopard swing coat, pink cigarette pants, and lime-green gloves.
-
I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.
-
I didn't act in Israel, but I wrote plays at home and acted in plays at school. I tried to get an agent when I was 12, but they told me that I had too much of an accent.
-
The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
-
I love Hershey's chocolate. I feel the same about chocolate as I do about wine. Connoisseurs like dark chocolate and they like nasty wine that doesn't taste good to me. I don't get it!
-
It's a particularly modern myth that married people are best friends. The best-friend concept is a uniquely female phenomena.
-
I say 20 words in English. I say money, money, money, and I say hot dog! I say yes, no and I say money, money, money and I say turkey sandwich and I say grape juice.
-
My dear old dog, most constant of all friends.
