Ed Gass-Donnelly Quotes
I want find to beauty in the world but to do so requires you to acknowledge and confront the darkness.
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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I want to resume the life of a shy person.
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I would not hesitate to vote for a white person as president if I thought he was the best person for the job.
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People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.
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Stand-up comedy is an art form and it dies unless you expand it.
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Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity.
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If you're a casting director, you're going to be curious to see what Timothy Spall's son is like. But when you get in the door, you have to have something to offer.
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Do not learn more than you absolutely need to get through life.
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I love what Drake does, but I don't want to be called the Drake of country.
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It's a war zone. Terrible things happen.
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Basically, my parents messed up because it was the Sixties, and they both had affairs, but they had a great love for each other. I saw that when my father flew over from Los Angeles when he knew my mother was going to die.
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I love acting, but I'm not too crazy about money or fame. They don't drive me.
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I love flexing theater muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.
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I'm very comfortable with where history will judge me.
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I'm going to stop putting things off, starting tomorrow!
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To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.
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Learn all the rules... then break them.
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Right after college, after growing up in the United States, I moved to India, broadly telling the story of how an old and stagnant country was suddenly waking up. And I came home, back to America, in 2009 after telling that story and writing a book about that.
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I would do it [study UFOs], but before agreeing to do it, we must insist upon full access to discs recovered. For instance in the L.A. case, the Army grabbed it and would not let us have it for cursory examination.
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I was fortunate to have a grandfather who was an optometrist. Vision therapy was something that we routinely did to strengthen our eyes and give us better focus. I was fortunate that he could teach me techniques that are still paying dividends for me to this day.
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Making movies is about control. You need to control your narcissism in the first place, and you need to be disciplined enough to understand the reason for the film. You need to follow the agenda of the film, not a personal agenda or that of the studio. Or, worst of all, of the actors.
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The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.
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I think I am too interested in my own ideas to copy anyone else's, but I find that other people's imagery, the flow of language in the outside world, games with words, and ideas about relationships are all most important to me.
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I want find to beauty in the world but to do so requires you to acknowledge and confront the darkness.
