Alistair Cooke Quotes
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I'm not going to lie; the most fun of writing these books is just saying, 'Where am I going to write about? Let me go there!'
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I have never Twittered or Tweeted or even Chirped.
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I make money using my brains and lose money listening to my heart. But in the long run my books balance pretty well.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
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I make a living playing rock n' roll. I'm not going to complain about anything.
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Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.
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When you carry out acts of kindness you get a wonderful feeling inside. It is as though something inside your body responds and says, yes, this is how I ought to feel.
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Life is grim, and we don't have to be grim all the time.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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I'm a dork!
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Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.
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I simply wanted to get through college as quickly as humanly possible. I had no interest in extracurricular activities or anything that required me to be social. I was allergic to people.
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It's sort of like, our bodies are designed to keep moving, and when we don't move it, we're not going to feel great.
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I'm honored to be one of the guys that is seen as a leader of this great team - a team that has stood the test of time. AKA is one of the only teams that has been around since the beginning of the MMA explosion, and it's a huge honor for me to be named captain.
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I think that what we've been able to do is put together both a good group of scholars and analysts and people who aggressively want to make the case to the American public.
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It's hard to write a good plot, it's very hard.
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I use argan oil when I have dry ends. A good hair brush, like a Mason Pearson, is great because it doesn't damage the hair. I like Kerastase shampoo and conditioner best.
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Relative to most of the energy and material flows on Earth, the machinations of humankind are puny. The planet's powers are much, much bigger than our own. But in a few sensitive places, we're making an impact on a planetary scale, and that impact is not a good one.
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I definitely had fun being a waiter. I can't say for sure that I was a good waiter. I think that I made people have a good time.
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He was at his best only when the going was good.
