Balthazar Getty Quotes
When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.
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I quite like the drama of an encore. I think an encore is for those artists who are inclined to do dramatic gestures, and I certainly would say I am inclined towards them.
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You set your goals to a point where they're attainable, but far enough away that you have to really go get them. And every year I push my goals a little bit farther away, and every year I work a little bit harder to get them.
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There are no sacred and unsacred places; there are only sacred and desecrated places. My belief is that the world and our life in it are conditional gifts.
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It's great when a director like Cameron Crowe can take what you do and fit it into what he's doing. If someone's a fan of you already, they can take what you do and make it work for what they're doing. You don't know their vision, and you're thinking, 'How is this guy going to take what I do and make it work in this movie?'
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You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.
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Early in 1986, the World Health Organization in Geneva still regarded AIDS as an ailment of the promiscuous few.
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
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The majority of men meet with failure because of their lack of persistence in creating new plans to take the place of those which fail.
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You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
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I just go in the studio and write on the spot and see what comes out.
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As of 2002, two million Latino adults had been diagnosed with diabetes.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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The best philosophers were not academics, but had another job, so their philosophy was not corrupted by careerism.
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I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.
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You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.
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I love Chicago. It's one of my favorite cities, hands down.
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Home is where one starts from.
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I don't have any regrets about not having kids. I've just never had those maternal feelings. I am a nurturer by nature, but I nurture adults: my friends, the people I work with. I don't want to nurture children.
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I'm a creative person. I love to write, I love to act, I love to perform, I love to create things with my hands, so I do all of these things that are kind of like hobbies in a way. They're things that I love, so it's not like a work-life balance; it's just a work-life marriage.
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If a traditional publisher offered me a quarter of a million dollars for a novel, I'd consider it. But anything less than that, I'm sure I can do better on my own.
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I certainly couldn't have written 'Angela's Ashes' when my mother was alive, because she would have been ashamed.
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I'm apolitical. Where all that Conservative business came along from, I don't know.
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When you go in and do a cool, small character, it feels less like work and more like fun.
