Tahmoh Penikett Quotes
I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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Age for me is just a number.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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I can't bear art that you can walk round and admire. A book should be either a bandit or a rebel or a man in the crowd.
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If a political opponent has different approaches than mine, that doesn't make them a bad person. It means they have different backgrounds, experiences, and ideas.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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When I was 26, I got offered the Connecticut job, but the ABA started, and I thought I could still play.
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If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
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Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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Fundamentally, footballers don't look around a dressing room and think, 'He's a black player... he's Japanese.' They don't think like that. They think, 'He's a good player; he can help. He's not very good.' I'm not trying to defend anyone's actions, but there are going to be isolated incidents because it's an emotive, passionate sport.
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Fear is... a kind of unintentional storytelling that we are all born knowing how to do.
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The first thing I look at is, 'Is the entrepreneur going after really big problems, to the extent that it feels scary when they talk about it?' You wonder if the idea is possible. I have seen that a lot of times, people go after small problems, and that's a sign that they are not confident.
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Acting offers me an outlet. Here is the perfect opportunity to spend fleeting moments becoming an entirely different person; to experience a character entirely unlike myself, but to also make such a character a part of me. There is no routine here; there is no boredom.
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Of all the labels and tags and epithets people have forced upon me, there's one I don't dislike. I get called the 'enfant terrible.' In every article, it's always there. So I have to give that a meaning.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I'm a dedicated Republican and a proud party man.
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You make your mark by being true to who you are and letting that be your staple.
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It seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America's power. It has been the symbol of our great nation. We look at the symbol and we say 'this is one nation under God.'
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Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man?
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There's something so arrogant about us creating robots that are more and more human-looking or acting. It's like we're playing God. Let's create something that's a reflection of us, but it's inferior.
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Dear Mother, I am getting on nicely in my work at the bank, and like it ... I want to find out something about the science of money while I am at it; it is an extraordinarily interesting subject.
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Science can never be a closed book. It is like a tree, ever growing, ever reaching new heights. Occasionally the lower branches, no longer giving nourishment to the tree, slough off. We should not be ashamed to change our methods; rather we should be ashamed never to do so.
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I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.
