Tyler Hamilton Quotes
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I was standing on the deck of the USS Blue, a destroyer. We were all alone out there at this buoy, tied up.
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Brad Pitt is a dude who just wants to make good movies. He's not afraid to surround himself with the greatest actors, which I always appreciate because I've also seen actors who only want to surround themselves with weak actors because it makes them look better. That ends up making a poorer movie.
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
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I think rap music is brought up, gangster rap in particular, as well as video games, every other thing they try to hang the ills of society on as a scapegoat.
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I couldn't live up to it. So I chose to run away.
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We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.
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I moved from a mountain with one traffic light to New York City when I was 17, and it was an amazing, eye opening, creative adventure. I would walk through the streets of Manhattan looking up at these huge buildings, amazed that I didn't know a single person in any of them.
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I was so nervous because I was doing my first film. I didn't want to embarrass myself. I'm an incredibly insecure person, and knowing that I had to go on set in next to nothing, it scared me, but at the same time, I knew it would be a challenge to open me up, not only as an actress but as a person.
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There wasn't anyone in my family who was involved in the theatre. I saw a few amateur plays when I was growing up, but I can't think of anything that happened or anybody in particular who inspired me; it all came from within.
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I tried to play sports, which was a disaster and probably one of the reasons I ended up being an actress.
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I grew up reading Shakespeare and Mark Twain.
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My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.
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I'm not going to give up the shock part of my comedy.
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In a politically diverse nation, only by finding that common ground can we achieve results for the common good.
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The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.
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Turn up the lights. I don't want to go home in the dark.
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I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I'm there all the time.
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Keep your ears open, your eyes open, grab everything you can, react, and learn!
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I graduated in 1930 and I went up to the Yale Drama School for two years.
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I have my whole office set-up at waist level; I don't sit at all during the day. Sitting, to me, is the devil.
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Writing is a lonely job unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.
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One of the best moments of the Obama presidency was the passage of the Affordable Care Act.
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The scripts don't come pouring in; I have to fight for every part.
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They've pushed me down a big ravine, but I'll get back up to the top.
