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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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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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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I believe that modern slavery is the most outrageous assault on the rights of an individual. It is something that touches me deeply because I grew up in rural Brazil and could see first-hand how poverty forced people to work in harsh, exploitative conditions.
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There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.
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It's not enough to trade a prison of powerlessness for the pain of an empty stomach. But history shows that governments of the people and by the people and for the people more powerful in delivering prosperity.
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I'm no spring chicken. The same arthritis that ate up my left hip that finally got replaced hasn't stopped there... And touring is a lot of work. I'm impressed when I see people like Eric Clapton out there. Gee whiz, Eric, give me a break! I know it's gotta hurt somewhere.
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It cost me a lot of money to have a vacation, basically. It's nice to step back and see there's more to life.
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Before Charlottesville, it might have been easy to dismiss the plot of 'Mudbound' as no longer relevant. Now, I feel like audiences will be more receptive to the material - and to interrogating their personal histories after watching it.
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If you want to change the fruits, you will first have to change the roots. If you want to change the visible, you must first change the invisible.
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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.
