Ambrose Bierce Quotes
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To not sing with an orchestra, to not be able to communicate through my voice, which I've done all my life, and not to be able to phrase lyrics and give people that kind of joy, I think I would be totally devastated.
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God is waiting for us, to forgive us all, and what is broken, he'll fix.
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By no means do I want to try to leave country music. That's absolutely where I want to stay.
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If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
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I was sick and tired of being an English actor who did a lot of American movies because I was cheap and good.
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Yeah, I'm old as the hills and you would think I'd be out to pasture someplace because I've done everything, but nothing has changed.
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Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a lullaby.
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Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
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I've been around the track a lot. I've had the best of the years, and I don't want a single year back.
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People don't know that there were very successful black businessmen in the years of apartheid.
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The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
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Playing a plainer role means everything is dependent on the credentials of the actor, not the fact that they are as pretty as Julia Roberts. People start to look at their talent rather than their appearance. And playing the ugly part often means less time in the make-up chair, which is a great benefit on set.
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I really don't spend time thinking about the past. I think about the future. I'm not stopping.
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I've always felt that the traditional novel doesn't give you enough information about the narrator, and I think it's important to know the point of view from which these tales are told: the moral makeup of the teller.
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No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.
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Although the general security situation for the Beijing Olympics remains stable, we still face the challenges of terrorism, separatism and extremism.
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I rarely listen to music while writing. If I don't like it, it bothers me, and if I like it, it absorbs me so much I can't write.
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If I am writing a movie and I am stuck, I can call the studio and tell them it's delayed. You can't do that with television - you have air dates to meet.
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My mom's Brazilian, so she and I definitely grew up with different perspectives. I was born in America, and she's from Brazil, so we have different ways of doing things. There's a bit of culture clash there.
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When I began to read as an adult, my first big enthusiasm was Evelyn Waugh. I read almost exclusively novelists of a generation back. I did the Russians, then I started getting more up to date.
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Television was essentially my college.
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I try to focus on what I'm supposed to do, and to do my job the best I can. I kind of let everything happen the way it's supposed to happen, let everything fall into place the way it should.
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For a young player, the most important thing is to play.
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Accordion, n. An instrument in harmony with the sentiments of an assassin.
