Ted Shackelford Quotes
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'
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It's impossible for China to keep 10 to 15% growth annually. The economy needed to slow down, and we have to learn to slow down.
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I write fast. But it takes me a while to get going. It's very important for me to see my whole plot. I have to see the end first because I like a surprise in the end. Which is why I let characters and plot gestate in my mind.
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Change is no threat to culture.
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I'm a Nietzschean scholar. I've read an immense amount about nihilism and existentialism.
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I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.
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In international relations, you don't base your work on hope.
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Life moves fast. As much as you can learn from your history, you have to move forward.
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I have always had eclectic obsessions: astrophysics, music theory, the Mongol empire and its history, and the history of the Silk Road, to name a few.
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Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.
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We are so blessed to be here in America. We have freedom and opportunity unlike anywhere else in the world.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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When we grew up, we wanted to do two things: to own a sports team and a casino.
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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It's okay to be a fat man. It's prestige and power and all of that. But fat women are seen as just lazy and stupid and having no self-control.
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Nearly half of the American population is eagerly anticipating the end of the world. This dewy-eyed nihilism provides absolutely no incentive to build a sustainable civilization. Many of these people are lunatics, but they are not the lunatic fringe.
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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
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When you put your characters in a dire situation, they often do things that surprise even you, so you have to go back and revise your original conception of who they are.
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I acted my heart out.
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The negotiation of city space has been made more difficult with the idea that redevelopment is an improvement for some vague future - but it's never like that, is it? Once you get there, for economic reasons you have to generate the next project - so you're immediately starting to dig up something else, and so it goes on.
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I entered politics in 1967; since then, continuously, I am getting elected... Fortunately I never lost the elections.
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And I had a lot to play, which is what you want as an actor.
