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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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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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 look fine. I've had no surgery apart from an operation I had decades ago to remove the fat under my eyes. My mum looked 30 when she was 60, so I guess I owe it all to genes and hair dye.
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Sharing with just your friends doesn't protect your privacy. I know the people at Facebook will disagree and argue that users can control what is shared with whom. But this is simply an illusion that makes us feel better about all the sharing we have done and are about to do.
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It's not a problem taking out someone who wants your people dead. That's not a problem at all.
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We have to choose every day to be active participants. To wake up in the morning and choose this life and make something of it is an incredible thing. Not many living creatures have that option. We have so many opportunities and options - it's a huge burden, but it's also the most freeing part of our lives.
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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.
