Walter Dean Myers Quotes
My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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Maybe because I'm a child of the '80s, but for me, a sequel is a story that follows the previous one, and sometimes if you haven't seen the original, then you don't understand the second one. Like 'Back to the Future 2.' If you haven't seen the first one, you're not going to get anything out of 'Back to the Future 2.'
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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I learn something not because I have to, but because I really want to. That's the same view I have for performing. I'm performing because I really want to, not because I have to bring bread back home.
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Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.
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The sound of the blades on the ice in the morning is like smelling fresh coffee.
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I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in seeing them fight. They want to see me fight.
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That's all TV acting is. Like, let me find my mark and seem like I'm still acting. Sometimes they'll put sandbags there, but then it's even funnier because you're walking and you're, like, stepping into sandbags, so now you look like you're having a seizure.
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Having a couple really great basics makes it easy to dress well every day.
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The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I always ask myself, would I want someone to do something that wasn't comfortable for them just to please me? And the answer is no.
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When I remember my life in Russia it is in totally dark colours.
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I don't have any ill will or ill thought towards anybody.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
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I remember feeling a huge amount of anxiety and worry and pressure. At that point I was headed into acting school. That was 100 percent the only thing I thought I wanted to do. But then I got through my first year of college, and I was, like, humming and rolling around, pretending to be a lion in acting classes at NYU and visiting our classmate Charlie Gregg at Harvard, where he was actually learning things. So I changed my mind: I decided I actually wanted a different kind of education, and that was an incredibly freeing idea.
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Junooniyat for love but not necessarily from the romantic perspective. For me, that is for family, that is for my work. For me, both these things are very important, so there is junoon for people I love, which is my family, and my work, which I worship.
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Since I am an immature and wicked man, war and unrest appeal to me more than good bourgeois order. Brutality is respected, the people need wholesome fear. They want to fear someone. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive.
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I thought a lot about our Nation and what I should do as President. And Sunday night before last, I made a speech about two problems of our country - energy and malaise.
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There are no withdrawal symptoms yet (post retirement in 1992). I'm enjoying the feeling of being faltu.
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My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.
