Ernest Klein Quotes
What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language.
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I try to talk about policy issues intelligently, I try very hard to avoid thought bubbles. I make sure my speeches are well researched and footnoted. I make sure I am not talking through my hat.
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Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
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I had been playing for about a year and a half when the Beach Boys formed. When our folks went to Mexico on business, we would take the food money they had left us and we would rent instruments.
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It's my deepest interest as an actor: I love discovering how human beings work, how their flaws reveal themselves - how to learn and grow from that - and how characters teach me things as a woman and as a parent.
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In January '77 I went out to LA and have been here 26 years.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you.
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I struggled for many, many years following 'Music and Lyrics' - I mean really struggled.
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People don't know that there were very successful black businessmen in the years of apartheid.
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That's been the most exciting part of the show - incorporating the magic and the acrobats and the singing and dancing to make our 'Pippin.'
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I would argue that the objective evidence shows that big government is not a friend to African Americans.
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My dad has a huge vinyl collection downstairs, but I was never too interested. The only CD I had was by Adam Sandler.
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I tend to forget what I'm doing will ever be read while I'm writing it, and just get on with the task at hand.
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I've had people in the family, male and female, impacted by heart disease. But people can prevent it.
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To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.
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I enjoy every role I do.
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It's very odd that we have such an easy relationship to violence in this country, and we're still shocked by the female figure.
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We now know how things were in the '60s and how things have changed, but I don't think we appreciate how much things have changed.
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Sometimes we make progress in leaps. And sometimes we make them in small steps.
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My fondest memory of Tupac is my father producing 'Toss It Up' for him when I was 7 years old and hearing that.
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I will choose a path that's clear, I will choose freewill.
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In my household growing up in Fayetteville, N.C., music was the great communicator between my parents and me.
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I still reject lead roles, as I don't accept any role if I don't find it challenging enough. I am very careful while making selections.
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What the elements are to chemistry, what the sounds are to music, are words to language.
