Gary Hirshberg Quotes
Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
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What happened was I saw this ad for a yogurt plant for sale. It was in my junk mail pile, and I threw it into the garbage can. And then about half an hour later, with the dirt on it, I picked it up from the garbage can, and I called out of curiosity.
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I've no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it's a great culture. People respect you more; it's more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here.
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However, I am willing to hear what you can produce from Scripture in favor of any kind of slavery.
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I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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For me, I never, never, from the moment I started acting, had a desire to be famous.
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I got a big mouth.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.
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When you concentrate on agriculture and industry and are frugal in expenditures, Heaven cannot impoverish your state.
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Winning the Oscar was like winning all the prizes in one single night that I never won as a kid.
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I am a normal guy.
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We are not concerned with the very poor. They are unthinkable, and only to be approached by the statistician or the poet.
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I was always fascinated by politics, and I was exposed to it quite a lot.
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My physical transformations - like changing my hair - are usually a reflection of what's inspiring me at the moment.
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Everyone from Pullman porters to hostesses at swank New York parties will tell me they always watch 'Miss Brooks' on Friday night.
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While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office.
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I'm not against making new fans, but I'm not going to go out of my way to pander to someone and try to make them like me; that's not who we are. It's not as if we're fighting to find an audience - we have our audience, and anybody else is definitely welcome.
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Unlike a lot of actors, my father encouraged all his kids to go into show business.
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If doing what ought to be done be made the first business and success a secondary consideration--is not this the way to exalt virtue?
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Quality, quality, quality: never waver from it, even when you don't see how you can afford to keep it up. When you compromise, you become a commodity and then you die
