Will Compton Quotes
I just know I want to be an example of what I believe in. I want to influence people. People that are young.
Quotes to Explore
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The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.
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In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.
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I want to be an inspirational model. I want people to look at me and say, 'Wow, she looks healthy.'
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The type of music we know as classical music began with rich people hiring musicians or owning them in a way. Without funding, it's very hard to have this experience. Be it state money or private money, there has to be someone dedicated to raising the money.
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I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.
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I had been on this improv team at this really great improv theater. It's called iO now. It used to be called Improv Olympic. They have showcases for Lorne Michaels and other writers and people who work at 'SNL' usually about once a year, although I don't know if it always happens.
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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
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I love 'Battles,' and I love what it's doing for people.
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Mike Judge is very specific about how people look in his projects, and I think it's because he's an animator.
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People can defame anyone they like, people can write anything they like. But non-accountability is a part of modern Indian culture.
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We want a vernacular in art. No mere verbal or formal agreement, or dead level of uniformity but that comprehensive and harmonizing unity with individual variety which can be developed among people politically and socially free.
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As an actor you can't build up proper relationships with the people you work with, because after six months, you're done.
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I didn't invent forensic science and medicine. I just was one of the first people to recognize how interesting it is.
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Nobody sets out to break new ground. I think change comes when people have no other choice.
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When we have done our best, we can, as a united people, take whatever may befall with calm courage and confidence that this old nation will survive and if death should come to many of us, death is not the end.
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I feel like, if I'm going to have young, impressionable people listening to my music, then I'm going to respect that.
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The message of Jesus is summed up partly in the Sermon on the Mount, and partly when he begins his ministry and quotes the passage from Isaiah: 'I have come to set free the prisoners and restore sight to the blind.' And certainly, his mission is also to bring hope. It was to heal people, to befriend the outcast.
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I like my subjects to be American, and not too dead, so I can interview people who knew them.
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The Internet is changing the way we think of our relationship with government; it has the potential to bring to life what Abraham Lincoln said about the presidency being an instrument of the people.
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Richard Pryor was my hero. Richard Pryor was keeping it 100.
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I hardly ever think about audience. I just try to tell a story for me. I write the kind of story I would like to read.
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I went to college at University of South Carolina and dropped out of chemistry, and to fill a class, the only spot they had left was a theater class. It was so annoying, but I took it and then I thought it was the greatest thing; the most socially creative. I dropped out of school immediately and moved to New York to start acting. I was 19.
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I knew I loved dancing with my friends.
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I just know I want to be an example of what I believe in. I want to influence people. People that are young.
