Ed Bastian (Edward H. Bastian) Quotes
You can't have costs ahead of your unit revenues. What I wake up at night worrying about is that our proposals are not aggressive enough.
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If I had even the tiniest scrap of advice to give to a young actor who was figuring out how to audition, I would say don't memorize the script... The reality about auditions is that 98 percent of the results has to do with what you are, not with what you did in the audition.
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Our first phase was inviting all the women Ambassadors who were here from other countries and trying to get in touch with all the peace centers around the country in order to focus on increasing the volume and activity toward peace.
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I love biographies. I read Patti Smith's 'Just Kids.' I'm into that time frame in New York, the '70s and '80s. In art school, I read 'Close to the Knives,' the autobiography of the artist and AIDS activist David Wojnarowicz.
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That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.
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When I arrived in the U.S., I knew little English and didn't have any friends. The neighborhood and school kids were so welcoming. They made me feel at home very quickly.
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At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.
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One of my favorite comedies is 'Groundhog Day' and 'Scrooged.' I love Bill Murray, and I think he's a great example of an actor who is funny.
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I don't think there's a punch-line scheduled, is there?
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I am quite an early riser - I usually get up between 5.30 and 6am and take the dogs out.
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The experienced fighting pilot does not take unnecessary risks. His business is to shoot down enemy planes, not to get shot down.
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Most of the people who will walk after me will be children, so make the beat keep time with short steps.
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All I had to do was do it.
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I'm really proud of 'Bright Lights' because I was still in the mind frame of my first album when I was putting it together, but next time I want to display something different. I don't want to be as young, immature and all about boys!
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What did I do to be a villain? ... Well, I mean you can't look at it that way. I didn't initiate it. It's a situation where I showed restraint, and I moved on from there.
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Taking care of your body, no matter what your age, is an investment.
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It is hard, I found, to be called traitor. Strange how hard it is, for it's an easy name to call another man.
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Ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you.
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I went to the University of Vermont because I had a kind of unrequited love for this high school girlfriend. She wasn't even at the University but at another school nearby. But I thought if went to a school near her, just maybe... I was really remedial about girls in so many ways.
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I'd like to be a working actor. It sounds really trite, but there really are no small parts, only small actors. And so as long as I'm a working actor, I can improve.
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When people see an actor speak, they think they know him or her, whereas I'm just a face or a body to them.
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Cost is more important than quality but quality is the best way to reduce cost.
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The friendship of Shostakovich cast a brilliant light over my whole life and whose spiritual qualities captured my soul once and for all time.
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You can't have costs ahead of your unit revenues. What I wake up at night worrying about is that our proposals are not aggressive enough.
