Lecy Goranson Quotes
I was living in Evanston, Illinois and I was taking theater classes down the street, and our theater school was kind of affiliated with an agency, and so I went on one audition for whatever that movie was, 'My Stepmother is an Alien' or whatever it was, and 'Roseanne' was my second audition.
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America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
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There's nothing more interesting than the landscape of the human face.
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As I moved to less and less diverse places in my life, I realized that white people don't talk about race amongst themselves!
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When I started making movies, I was pretty young, and at the time I felt like there needed to be more confrontation in cinema - or I needed to make something more disruptive - so in the beginning, those movies were me wanting to play with the rules.
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Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.
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I had such a normal and amazing childhood. I've been so lucky. My parents are cool and normal. They don't talk about the business, and I still have stuff to do at their house.
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Around 1960, I moved back to Europe, attracted by the newly founded European Organization for Nuclear Research where, for the first time, the idea of a joint European effort in a field of pure science was to be tried in practice.
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I think, for the majority of my twenties, I was always so concerned with what I didn't have, or what I still wanted.
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Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
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Juilliard definitely emphasizes the theater. They don't train - at all really - for film acting. It's mostly process-oriented, pretty much for the stage.
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Music continues to remind me that its boundaries are limitless.
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All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.
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My friend Jerry Falwell was the one who said it, and he was a guest on my show, and it's hard to take the blame for everybody who shows up on your show.
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In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.
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Maybe I should write 'Tiger Who?' on my cap.
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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Sinatra had a lot of mood swings, but he was wonderful to my wife Barbara and to me. He made no bones about who he liked and who he loved, and he had this great charisma. When he walked into a room, it stopped. I've only seen that happen with Ronald Reagan.
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I have not the least doubt that school developed in me nothing but what was evil and left the good untouched.
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I had read Plato and Kant, but I had forgotten it.
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I like reading, I like boring things, and yet I think people for ages had this image of me that I was on the tube with a chainsaw looking for any likely candidate.
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I was living in Evanston, Illinois and I was taking theater classes down the street, and our theater school was kind of affiliated with an agency, and so I went on one audition for whatever that movie was, 'My Stepmother is an Alien' or whatever it was, and 'Roseanne' was my second audition.
