Talia Balsam Quotes
I had the benefit of watching good people show me what it really is to be an actor – the day in and day out of it.
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If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.
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I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.
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I produce for a low price and I sell it on my own to 80 countries.
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I say I have Spanish in me, but I'm not just Spanish. I'm proud of my ethnicities, and I will always be proud of being a Filipino.
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Each of our 900 shows so far was different - maybe that's what makes the fans come back to our gigs time and again. And that they're always part of the show. Phish concerts are a communal experience.
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I'm just someone who marvels at God.
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Why do you think so many actors are only half-developed people? It's very easy when you're a young actor to have these intense, explosive friendships for short periods of time, because you can control what's shown of you. Then you go on to your next job and reinvent yourself again. I think it's important to find something constant.
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The moment in which you make somebody laugh, you're only doing it to make them laugh and be happy. Then afterward you can be like, 'Oh, I just want the attention. I feel so good that everybody's listening to me and I got the approval that I need.'
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
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Sufis teach that we first must battle and destroy the evil within ourselves by shining upon it the good within, and then we learn to battle the evil in others by helping their higher selves gain control of their lower selves.
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Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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I think, as far as branching out with acting, it would take something really right on the mark to distract me from music, because music is everything to me.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.
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I'll be a wife and mother first, then First Lady.
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The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people or women.
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Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.
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The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked.
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We change people through conversation, not through censorship.
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It took me years to get out of the bargain basement. I always wanted to walk into a men's store and buy a cashmere sweater.
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I had the benefit of watching good people show me what it really is to be an actor – the day in and day out of it.
