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've never had a study in my life. I'm like Jane Austen - I work on the corner of the dining table.
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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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I think that there have been a number of public figures where you start hearing commentary that is dangerous because what it starts doing is it starts dividing us up as Americans.
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We are a mission-driven company. In order to do this, we have to build a great team. And in order to do that, you need people to know they can make a bunch of money. So we need a business model to make a lot of money.
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Writing a book is not as tough as it is to haul thirty-five people around the country and sweat like a horse five nights a week.
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I like The White Stripes and I like the kinda twang American thing right now.
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My friend George and I were walking on the beach in Norfolk, and there were thousands of [razor-clam] shells. They were so beautiful, I thought I had to do something with them. So, we decided to make [a dress] out of them. . . . The shells had outlived their usefulness on the beach, so we put them to another use on a dress. Then Erin [O’Conner] came out and trashed the dress, so their usefulness was over once again. Kind of like fashion, really.
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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.
