Anthony Ramos (Anthony Ramos Martinez) Quotes
Just speaking from growing up in the projects, it was hard for me to take dance classes or voice classes because I didn't have money. Or learn an instrument because I didn't have the money to buy one.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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It's very interesting, the dynamics of popularity. When you do something all the time, you don't worry about whether it's trendy or not.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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I was too prissy, too refined, too abstemious, too French to be a good American writer.
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I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.
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Often for hors d'oeuvres, I serve room temperature vegetables, something like that, so that the main course might be quite rich but the first course has balanced it out.
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The best thing I can say is professional football is a business. When they are recruiting football players, they are not recruiting model citizens. Everybody has to be aware of this. What's being selected for the NFL is the ability to play and perform on Sunday afternoons. Everything else is secondary.
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I really didn't intend to be a musician when I left Japan.
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Economic growth is important. But we cannot count on economic growth alone to fund the public education system our children need and deserve.
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David Lynch helped me be cool.
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I do get stopped a bit now and then, but I can go to the supermarket and on the Tube without being noticed. It's usually me that gets starstruck, especially by TV stars.
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You might be surprised by how interested young people are in older people.
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The principal cause of war is war itself.
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Art is life's dream interpretation.
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Schrödinger's wave-mechanics is not a physical theory, but a dodge - and a very good dodge too.
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I never meant to write about the experience of losing a good friend to breast cancer when I was going through it. But after it was over, I realized that although something deeply sad had happened, something truly beautiful also had.
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When I first heard 'A Christmas Story, the musical,' I thought, Oh, that could be really good. It just felt like it fit. Some films lend themselves well to other formats, some don't, but there are so many fantasy sequences in the film, and Ralphie's such a dreamer as a character, I thought they could really lend themselves to being set pieces.
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If your mind is pure, all buddha-lands are pure.
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We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.
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What I miss from the States, I guess, is going to museums and to see small rock shows in small bars. We don't have that in Hong Kong. Unfortunately because the property market is so high, all rent is so expensive, they can't afford to have a rock music bar because those things don't make a lot of money, and they're paying a lot of rent.
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Many of the less prolific killers' stories go unheard because they simply don't make good books.
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Well, I use the word Satanist, but I don't know if I ever really considered myself as somebody who's into Satan.
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Just speaking from growing up in the projects, it was hard for me to take dance classes or voice classes because I didn't have money. Or learn an instrument because I didn't have the money to buy one.
