Bret Hart Quotes
I'm always grateful for any kind of moment that keeps my memories alive and gives me a little taste of the excitement I used to get all the time.
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We did a lot of high school productions. My first was 'Twelfth Night.' I played Viola. We did 'Much Ado About Nothing' and 'Taming of the Shrew,' and a lot of musicals: 'The Wiz,' 'Bye Bye Birdie,' 'Oliver.'
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We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
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I take my work seriously, but I don't necessarily take myself seriously.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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I haven't seen much socially redeeming about religion. I'm an atheist. I don't here want to get into the Hitchens- or Dawkins-style attack on religion. I was raised on that. It's boring.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
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The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It's not an argument that it's reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe.
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I just work a lot. I just remember recording in a hotel room in Malaysia. I work on planes, I work on buses. A lot of times when I'm backstage in the hotel or on the bus, I would have new ideas.
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The only reason for doing a play is to make a statement about it, and by that I don't mean a conceit of the producer.
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My first reaction to Trump being elected was a visceral one. I cried for black people in general but, more particularly, for those of us at the margins who have been struggling and who have never received enough support.
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My salvation lies in time spent alone with an X-Acto knife and commercial-grade adhesive.
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I had my heart set on becoming an English teacher, but stumbled into acting after meeting a theatrical agent in my dad's restaurant in San Diego.
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I had a very boring life, which is fine. I like being boring.
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I neither drink nor smoke, because my schoolmaster impressed upon me three cardinal virtues; cleanliness in person, cleanliness in mind; temperance.
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'Uprising' was one of the first three or four albums I ever bought in 1980 when I was 13, and that had a strong impact on me.
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I'm a gatekeeper, and the gatekeepers all used to be mostly old, white men.
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The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.
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The last thing we need is yet another makeup company. Even I have a nervous breakdown when I go through the department store makeup floor.
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Life was a lot more adventurous before caller I.D.
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Learn the rules and then break them in such a way as to exercise good taste.
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I'd found that what I wrote and put out on records somehow was not fitting into how I perform on stage.
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The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie.
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I'm always grateful for any kind of moment that keeps my memories alive and gives me a little taste of the excitement I used to get all the time.
