Abraham Pais Quotes
The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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If you interact with anyone, ultimately, all people are the same. However they're dressed, when you're in the house with a person, they're going to be a regular human being.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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I love 'Trading Places,' but 'Coming to America' has one of the things I like to do - I like the multiple characters.
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I live in the suburbs, the final battleground of the American dream, where people get married and have kids and try to scratch out a happy life for themselves.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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I don't even know what sound is, much less what it's for. It isn't to make money that's for sure. I've never made any.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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I warm up with my mom and make sure I understand what the songs are about and make sure I'm using the right technique. To be honest with you, I really don't practice a lot... Usually, I say a prayer and ask the Lord to sing with me and help me and stand on the stage with me.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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Sick children, if not too shy to speak, will always express this wish. They invariably prefer a story to be told to them, rather than read to them.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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We didn't rehearse or play the songs to death before we recorded them, and that let us catch a freshness and energy level we've never really felt while making records.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.
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I suppose I could be accused of taking acting too seriously and losing the fun of it. I do take my work very seriously; I take on the responsibility of it.
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By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity.
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It is interesting the way you create something and send it out into the culture, and then the culture kind of goes berserk.
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Where do you go when you're the best in the world? What's next?
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The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.
