Ray Toro Quotes
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My comrades would call me a 'black capitalist.'
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To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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The actual, original 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,' I have vague memories of because I was pretty small, but I loved, loved, loved it. I have only those weird, visceral little-kid memories: I remember the extreme flat, two dimensional green that was their skin or the weird pizza with no sauce - it was just like yellow, drippy cheese.
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You can never predict a hit or a flop, but it's about what you are happy doing as an actor. Every actor comes with his or her own mindset.
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I realized I didn't want to be a photographer. I gave it up, but I still worked that job in the restaurant and I found myself constantly hanging out in the kitchen.
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.
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Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.
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We all get self-centered.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.
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I saw a lot of people have success handed to them that then exploited it. They didn't protect it or cherish it.
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Among all the 'awards' that I have hitherto collected, I consider the title of 'patita' or 'fallen woman' to be the highest. This is an achievement of my long-struggling life as a writer and as a woman.
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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've always wanted to be an actress as well as a fashion designer.
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And if you're horrible to me I'm going to write a song about you and you are not going to like it. That's how I operate.
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There's this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above that box. I could have done a bunch of movies where I stayed as the Axel Foley or Reggie Hammond persona. But I didn't want to be doing the same thing all the time. Every now and then, you crash and burn, but that's part of it.
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Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.
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It's very difficult to be objective about yourself and your own circumstances, but one thing I do know about is that I grew up surrounded by storytellers.
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When you doubt yourself you create something better.
