Ted Shackelford Quotes
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Even if gas prices fall, consumers will continue to be gouged at the pump the only thing that we can be sure rises faster that the price of gasoline is the skyrocketing profits of oil companies.
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
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In 'A Boy's Own Story' and 'Jack Holmes and His Friend,' my idea was to take someone totally different from my real self and, at the same time, to assign to him my own life trajectory.
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet.
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If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.
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As a musician myself, it annoys the hell out of me to watch an actor trying to play a guitar out of time with the music.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
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I hate the domestic life.
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Sports and entertainment are the only places where inner-city kids see themselves being able to succeed. Their intellectual development is something they don't relate to.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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The last romantic novel I think I read was 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles.'
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
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I am always looking for ways to move technology away from being over-featured. Moving to Silicon Valley in the mid-1990s meant I grew up as a designer in an environment where technology is a tool and not a means to an end. I believe that design should be driven by ideas, not style.
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Investors are right to demand a clear path to self-sustainability from every business they invest in, and I believe we should ask for the same from philanthropy.
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The most important thing for workers to understand is that you have to make yourself indispensable. You must make money for your employer or make his life easier, preferably both. Also, you have to learn as much as you can about your chosen endeavor.
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I am someone who doesn't pay so much attention to how I am looking. I get so involved in what I am doing, so I overlook that.
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I have always looked up to Adele and Christina Aguilera as singers ever since I was very young, and now my favorite male singer is Hozier.
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The future is finally something that we can now put into focus.
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I'm never afraid to die. I think that's the best thing that can happen to somebody is they get to move on and do something better.
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
