Barry Corbin Quotes
I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.
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The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was that Washington was ultimately able to control his emotions, something Arnold never learned to do.
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I enjoy building more than managing.
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Fashion is a language, for sure, and it is a reflection of society.
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You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
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Leaders know the importance of having someone in their lives who will unfailingly and fearlessly tell them the truth.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Some men think that if you're empowered and sure of yourself then you're a man-hater, but it's like, 'No, I'm just the same as you are, but maybe just a tiny bit more confident.'
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I try to stay as naive as possible so I'm not as aware as much of the risks.
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The fight against international terrorism isn't just a fight against a bunch of misguided extremists; it is a fight to defend the values that we hold dear.
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Nature builds things that are antifragile. In the case of evolution, nature uses disorder to grow stronger. Occasional starvation or going to the gym also makes you stronger, because you subject your body to stressors and gain from them.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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Most of the animated films I watched, the emotions are all prepackaged like canned music, the hand actions, the sighs.
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I think the only way to maintain profitability is to meet the needs of the customers.
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William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
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I am an earnest advocate of manual training and trade teaching for black boys, and for white boys, too.
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I live in a bus and go from place to place and sometimes feel very detached from what's going on.
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Westerns just thematically, as a genre, have kind of a few tent poles that I really admire, and one of them is this perception that life was simpler back then. And with that perception goes that people were good or people were bad. You survived by your strengths or you perished by your weaknesses.
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When young people say I want to be a novelist, I'd say, think very carefully about it. There will be very few rewards, you probably won't make any money, you probably won't become famous, and you will spend your whole life locked up in a room by yourself worrying about how to survive.
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I'm obsessed with Radiohead. They're just the greatest band on the planet.
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Grandmaster games are said to begin with novelty, which is the first move of the game that exits the book. It could be the fifth, it could be the thirty-fifth. We think about a chess game as beginning with move one and ending with checkmate. But this is not the case. The games begins when it gets out of book, and it end when it goes into book..And this is why Game 6 [between Garry Kasparov and Deep Blue] didn't count...Tripping and falling into a well on your way to the field of battle is not the same thing as dying in it...Deep Blue is only itself out of book; prior to that it is nothing. Just the ghosts of the game itself.
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That's probably half the reason I wanted to be in a band - I wanted to see the world.
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I worked on 'Lonesome Dove' three weeks all together. When I heard they were doing it, I wanted to be involved since I'd read the book.
