Aristotle Quotes
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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I often will write a scene from three different points of view to find out which has the most tension and which way I'm able to conceal the information I'm trying to conceal. And that is, at the end of the day, what writing suspense is all about.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.
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It works both ways: there are victims of tragedy who come to me who have experienced grief of such magnitude that they cannot reconcile. Likewise, I cannot change the mentality of those who committed the crimes or the fools who followed them.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.
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We were able in the Recovery Act to get a program where we increased our loan guarantees to 90 percent. Because we had that program, a bank wouldn't have to take that much risk.
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I am so lazy and sometimes will go as late as 9 A.M. to shoot.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
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Acting's boring.
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I really loved animals when I was little - my friend and I had an imaginary vet's office; we would mime doing surgery on animals. We treated more injuries than illnesses - fixing with a baby bear with a broken leg, removing a tumor. Of course, our surgeries would take about five seconds; that's how good we were.
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It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.
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My father's life was so decimated by his earliest experiences. His mother died when he was 7 years old, which he always said was the worst experience in his life. When he was 8, his father disappeared and he was on his own from the age of 8.
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Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.
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War is something of man's own fostering, and if all mankind renounces it, then it is no longer there.
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Sometimes I get ideas from childhood. In 'The Hat', Hedgie starts getting teased about his hat, and he just pretends that everything is okay. That's the advice that my mother gave me - not to get mad and pretend that everything is okay. And it worked.
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I listen to music a lot, if I need to get into a particular space. I do stretching and breathing, and take time to mostly be quiet and find the stillness. I think that's important.
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Man first begins to philosophize when the necessities of life are supplied.
