Kyle Chandler Quotes
I'm in a great position now where I've got recognition. I'm not recognized too much. I think I'm recognized enough by the industry.
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I remember a tour where we played 50 cities in 56 days. We also went to Europe a couple of times.
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When I won the belt, it was kind of a precedent... The only Canadian to have ever held it.
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I grew up with a pet iguana named Willy. We had a very contentious relationship. It turns out that iguanas are not meant to live in suburban homes.
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I wasn't that hard. I wasn't that tough. I wasn't that funny – I looked like me.
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Modeling gave me so many experiences, like traveling and being exposed to global cultures, but the most valuable lesson has been working with designers who truly are visionaries in their field.
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I was a boy with one dream and one dream only: I wanted - no, strike that, I was desperate for - a room of my own. You see, in those days I shared a room with my little brother, Jesse, and it wasn't pretty. He was the Oscar to my Felix: messy, careless, and just a little bit sticky - exactly the way a kindergartner is supposed to be.
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a noble profession.
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I would probably say that being a commissioner in sports is one of the hardest jobs in the world.
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I think I'll be single my whole life. It's entirely possible I'm going to end up alone. Because I don't want to make any sacrifices for my own development and achieving what I want to achieve, and I don't want a family to get in the way of that.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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Age is the first limitation on roles that I've ever had to encounter, and I hit that awhile ago.
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I'm trying to work, be diverse and multi-talented.
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I can count on one hand the number of people who wrote me a thank you letter after having an interview, and I gave almost all of them a job.
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Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.
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When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't come into the room with a set of ideas, but miraculously, a song comes out of it.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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I love the Memphis sound. When I was 16-and-a-half, with my driver's permit, I was playing New Jersey clubs in a 10-piece band; we had a horn section and would play great, great songs like 'Hold On! I'm Comin'' and 'Knock on Wood' and 'Midnight Hour.'
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The two endorsements I'm most proud of come from Isabel Wilkerson and Toni Morrison. The latter is the greatest American fiction writer of our time, and the former is on her way to being the greatest American nonfiction writer of our time.
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There's no question: the finance market is moving into the cloud.
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He was smiling. It was one of those sincere smiles grown-ups give kids when they’re trying to get them in arm’s reach for something bad. Doctors smile that way right before they give you a shot; teachers look the same just before they tell you they found out what you did. The Big Bad Wolf probably smiled at Red Riding Hood like that when he was pretending to be her grandma. Despite all my mother’s flaws including her mean streak, I never once saw that travesty of an expression on her face.
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I'm in a great position now where I've got recognition. I'm not recognized too much. I think I'm recognized enough by the industry.
