Erik Madigan Heck Quotes
I love working with both the old and the super young. Each offers different things that I can learn from and build off.
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I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
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But I also think that the more you reason collectively about what the project should be at the beginning of the process, the more you can improvise later.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special. He used to call me and enquire about my film's progress. Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face.
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Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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The majority of meetings should be discussions that lead to decisions.
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From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.
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I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
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To have success in your professional life is not so hard. To succeed as a man is more difficult.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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I love to run, and I actually run quite a bit.
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It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism.
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I never felt isolated; I just liked being alone. I think that some people are good at being alone, and some people aren't, and as a child, I really liked it.
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The great seats of power tend to be wide and open, not vertical and soaring. Red Square, Tiananmen Square, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin - all massive but with large open spaces that project an image of might.
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It's rare when a president wins the campaign without winning independents.
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'There is nothing,' says a correspondent of the New York Times, 'which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revolutions. Politicians are mere puppets in the hands of men of thought.
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As a student in London, I had seen so many shows, so many plays and had seen so many greats of the day.
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Never trust a man who thinks his religion gives him all the answers.
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God gives different people different gifts, and there are some people that can listen to an instrument and within a fraction of a second tell, you know, where it's off key or what note doesn't resonate correctly.
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I love working with both the old and the super young. Each offers different things that I can learn from and build off.
