Decimius Magnus Ausonius Quotes
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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Marriage has always been a state and local issue.
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The stuff that's going on is just so over-the-top, with the banking crisis and destroying the Gulf of Mexico, and the outrage hasn't quite caught up with the people yet. But when it does, I think you're going to see really virulent anti-authoritarian kind of comedy coming out.
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I love Star City - it is my home.
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I would spend hours absorbing every intonation, every inflection - how the singer would convey a sentiment and how it would sound coming out of their head. All of those things I very carefully watched and absorbed, and so I guess I was studying my whole life, although not in any sort of conventional way.
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If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
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I like to give pennies to children, but unfortunately, a man cannot do these things if he lives in a small village or town where his face is known and seen every day. For children take advantage, as I know to my cost, and would gather round him like hens around a farmer when he scatters grain.
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The television business is based on managed dissatisfaction. You're watching a great television show you're really wrapped up in? You might get 50 minutes of watching a week and then 18,000 minutes of waiting until the next episode comes along.
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
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As people do better, they start voting like Republicans - unless they have too much education and vote Democratic, which proves there can be too much of a good thing.
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We shot 'Telusa Telusa' song in Bolivia. It took us 50 hours to get to the location. We shot in high altitudes, and oxygen cylinders were kept handy.
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There are times when I'm driving home after a day's shooting, thinking to myself, That scene would've been so much better if I had written it out.
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I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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The Obama administration has been weak and inconsistent in enforcing immigration laws.
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Let's means-test benefits - let's means-test Social Security and Medicare and make the rich pay more for these benefits.
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I would definitely go back and do theater; I talk about theater all the time.
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In 2008, people who invested in hedge funds needed capital badly, but many of the funds would not return their money. However, I gave money back to any investor who requested it. It was the bottom of the market and a pretty tough time.
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I want to pursue music in the future, but I'm taking it a step at a time and making sure I'm constantly growing.
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The same man cannot well be skilled in everything; each has his special excellence.
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Earth produces nothing worse than an ungrateful man.
