Barry Corbin Quotes
For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
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It's great to play somebody's wife, but not all the time. There's so many other stories to tell.
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The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.
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A purpose of our lives is to broaden what we can understand and say and therefore be.
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When I'm in the car, I want the only one shouting to be me.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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Men, even when alone, lighten their labors by song, however rude it may be.
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We've got great fans that rock and roll won't have, because you can have a one-hit record and country music used to, not so much anymore and you have a fan forever.
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Can we really mobilize support, even of friends, when we tell them that if you are not with us you are against us?
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
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Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.
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We need to see a Palestinian state.
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There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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We're trying to have the band create something beautiful that hopefully one day, 20 years from now, can be picked up by a kid and hopefully have the same effect that Neil Young had on me, or Led Zeppelin or Black Sabbath.
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When I was working with Tom Ford, he would just look at me and ask, 'Will you wear it?' I'd say, 'Ah, too long, too short, lower waist, deeper V, unbutton' - that sort of thing. I don't create clothes, but I definitely know how to make them come alive.
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Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
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I always try to put myself in the way of surprise as much as possible. My ambition is to keep challenging myself. I like that journey of discovery.
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I'm no rose. I have been around a while, and you never know when something is going to be the last thing you do.
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Compassion automatically invites you to relate with people because you no longer regard people as a drain on your energy.
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Aion is a child at play, gambling; a child’s is the kingship. Telesphorus traverses the dark places of the world, like a star flashing from the deep, leading the way to the gates of the sun and the land of dreams.
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Only an armed people can be truly free. Only an unarmed people can ever be enslaved.
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For an actor, you're rejected eight or ten times a day. All you've got to sell is yourself. You're not selling products, they're not turning down a car, they're turning you down. Most people can't handle that. Most people are essentially not set up that way.
