Zachary Quinto Quotes
I love playing characters that go to extreme places, and I love to explore different kinds of psychological landscapes, so it is ultimately a kind of fun, but it's also complicated and colored by the depth of the nastiness of it, at certain times, as well.
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Lobbying is a legitimate profession... Many congressional spouses act as lobbyists.
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Whenever we've seen the kids in the most disadvantaged context truly excel, always it's been in classrooms and in whole schools where there is a clear vision of where the kids have the potential to be.
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I got fired for giving coffee away. It was just my regulars. I'd say, 'Don't worry about it,' and they'd put down a dollar tip. Technically, I was stealing. Ethically, I was boosting morale!
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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The truth is, I don't sketch much at all. I have a very visual/spatial brain that retains a lot of information about maps, directions, positioning, and details, so I usually prefer working out those issues on the page itself.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Back in the day, cooking definitely was the thing where you could make a lot of money. Also, it was something that I liked to do.
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The celebration of homeownership seems to be part of a countermovement against popular owning of shares in corporations.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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Acting is the work of two people - it's only possible when you have the complicity, the help, even the manipulation of a director.
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You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
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Nothing says, 'I pay attention to detail!' like footwear flattery from a boy.
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I love hiking in the hills not far from my house. I'm invested in my hikes. Sometimes kids go up there and spray-paint over the signs; I've found a biodegradable paint cleaner, and I'll scrub the signs so they're nice and clean.
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Does that mean we should give up? Probably. But there are two issues worth considering. The first is - is it really true that drugs destroy the integrity of the game?
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I also love the zombie genre, my zombie fandom going way back to 'Night of the Living Dead.' And 'The Walking Dead' is truly the ultimate representation of that sensibility in the comic book genre.
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I think I'm a good judge of character.
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I'm very drawn to characters who are very flawed. I'm less interested in characters who are just good or bad, because to me then they're not real people.
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I follow three rules: Do the right thing, do the best you can, and always show people you care.
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I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.
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Now and forevermore, I'm going to stick up for immigrants, and I'm going to stick up for Hispanic people and their rights. I feel like that's just my job.
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In an ideological age, diplomacy may seem weak and prosaic. But sometimes it is all we have.
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I love playing characters that go to extreme places, and I love to explore different kinds of psychological landscapes, so it is ultimately a kind of fun, but it's also complicated and colored by the depth of the nastiness of it, at certain times, as well.
