Ted Shackelford Quotes
Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.
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I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
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If the television market collapses - and it will collapse - then, it seems, there is too much regulation, and that's not a good thing.
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Where most of the country is, well, hot - from the bone-baking dry heat of the desert to the flesh-melting humidity of Kerala in the south - Kashmir is cool: so cool, in fact, that in the winter, the temperatures can sink to sub-zero.
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Time is generally the best doctor.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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I have a 60-acre farm in North Carolina, and I have a tractor and a farmhouse. As soon as I groom the land, I want to put cabins around and have a place where people can write and hang out. It'll be either that or an all-black nudist colony.
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The old series of sittings with Mrs. Piper convinced me of survival for reasons which I should find it hard to formulate in any strict fashion, but that was their distinct effect.
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
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I don't think Bosnia is ready for reconciliation, but I do think it is ready for truth.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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Reading is power. Reading is life.
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I became friends with the leader of the underground vampire world. He had a fangsmith, so I had a pair made... It has become kind of my signature thing.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
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You cannot reduce the power of story with the tag of money because it's not a share market. So you must know the seriousness of the power of storytelling.
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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Menon the Thessalian did not either conceal his immoderate desire of riches or his desire of commanding, in order to increase them, or of being esteemed for the same reason. He desired to be well with those in power, that his injustice might escape punishment.
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I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.
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I made my first film when I was 35, so I firmly believe that you don't have to be one thing in life. If you're doing something, and you have a desire to do something different, give it a try.
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I've felt for some time that economics needs to be taught differently by economists who actually have had experience making a payroll or investing on Wall Street. When economics is taught by pure academics, watch out.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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My biggest problem was to get the coaches to understand that I was a runner, and I wanted to prepare myself based upon the calisthenics I did and get myself ready. For example, I used my forearm when I ran the ball, so I didn't want to do pushups because I wanted my forearms to heal.
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Television is so dictated by time constraints that you have to make quick decisions and go with them.
