Orlando Aloysius Battista Quotes
Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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It's all about destiny. That's why people look at the zodiac or the I Ching - because there's a certain order to life, and that order has been lived since the beginning of time. No matter what you do, you're going to live inside of it.
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When I first put out music, people didn't know what I looked like. They called it a new type of something; they couldn't put a genre on it - it was where indie and urban kind of meet in the middle. I thought that was quite exciting.
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I view my role now as providing more of a macro-level skepticism, rather than saying this poll is good or this poll is evil.
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Generally, what adults want to know is my background, why I write what I write, and very personal insights that some say are inspiring.
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Fortunately during my career I have won more or less everything, so I need to enjoy it to have the right motivation.
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There's a restaurant I go to whenever I can called The Richmond Cafe. It's a little Thai restaurant owned by a group of Thai women - I think they're all a family, and they're just really, really nice, and they make amazing massaman curry.
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The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.
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Poland is much more advanced than Romania in structural reforms.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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I will always think of myself as that girl that is 22 starting and really excited about everything and wanting to be amazing at everything. I always wanted to be the best stylist. That was it.
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I'm a huge historical fiction and non-fiction fan.
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I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!
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I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.
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Australia has a very big history of incarceration. What does that mean to us? What does it mean that we came over to a country that's not necessarily ours and filled it with white prisoners?
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Right now I'm doing four shows at a time, trying to read four outlines every week, four scripts every week, and watching four rough cuts; it's a lot of good work. It's fun to do it, but it does wear you out.
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However we can spread love and progression, we've got to do it.
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In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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You can be lonely when you have a guy living with you.
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Temptations, unlike opportunities, will always give you many second chances.
