Alan Rickman Quotes
Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.
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I wake up late, say 10 or 11, because we've usually been out and about town until 2 or 3 A.M. listening to music at the jazz clubs or hitting the jazz clubs post-theater.
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The defeat of Obamacare will come from the realization that the very idea of a government-administered health care system is absurd... and by people opting out of the system and developing workarounds.
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Focus on something that you have a passion for and hone that skill; it will make you feel confident about your ability.
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My worry about this exclusive focus on Trump - the personality and how all of this is so unprecedented - is that then the solution seems to be, 'Well, we'll just get rid of Trump.'
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I'm uncomfortable with the focus on the poet and not on the poem.
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Physically, it is very demanding as an actor, and I don't want to put a lot of focus on that, but I think it is emotionally and mentally a lot more... It can completely twist you... We abandon ourselves for days and months, and by the end of it, we are twisted people which you make fun of.
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When the needs of one person are being met by the other, there is laughter.
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I live in Europe and care about democracy and sovereignty of nation states there.
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I don't care how many championships you've won or how many records you've broken - if you've had a hand in pushing forward not only a game but women in sport's movement, then I think that's pretty darn good.
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I don't care about losses anymore.
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I actually spend very little time listening to any new music.
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I don't care how smart a kid you are. The only way you learn what's not right is from experience.
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What offends me the most when I hear criticisms about this so-called Africa bias is how quick we are to focus on the words and propaganda of a few powerful, influential individuals, and to forget about the millions of anonymous people who suffer from their crimes.
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George Bush doesn't care about black people.
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I am an ordinary person.
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When you're listening to the radio, you're hearing dance beats, all the bells and whistles, and 'Say Something' makes you quiet and forces you to listen.
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I can only focus on doing what's right.
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I think luck is a great part of it because I think that the particular makeup of the person that you are attracted to, and that you fall in love with, is very important. Even down to that old bromide of a sense of humor and all of that.
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If our minds are stayed upon God, His peace will rule the affairs entertained by our minds. If, on the other hand, we allow our minds to dwell on the cares of this world, God's peace will be far from our thoughts.
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It's a bad day when you don't get the work done that you need to get done or you don't get it done to the satisfaction.
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I hoped I could make people smile and laugh and have a good time.
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The great majority gave no signs one way or the other; like birth, their death was a sleep and a forgetting.
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Acting is mostly about listening. If you just focus in on what the other person is saying, acting takes care of itself to quite a large extent.
