Loudon Wainwright III Quotes

When you start your career, you have to figure out a way to separate yourself from the pack. So I went for a kind of preppy, psycho-killer look: I had short hair, grey flannel pants, and a button-down shirt. I think it worked, because nobody else was looking that way at that time.

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• Most of the time, those who use animals in experiments justify that use by pointing to alleged benefits to human and animal health and the supposed necessity of using animals to obtain those benefits.

  

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• We want our students to graduate from high school, but we want them to graduate with a plan, whether it's college or career.

  

  Kate Brown
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• I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.

  

  Campbell Scott
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• I remember the first time my mind was blown by an actor was Tim Curry, because I loved 'Clue' when I was a kid, and then I was watching the movie 'Legend,' and the Devil suddenly smiles, and I was like, 'It's the same guy!' It was a total Keyser Soeze moment.

  

  Oscar Isaac
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• For an actor, a Mamet play is definitely on the list of things you hope to be a part of before it's time to exit.

  

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• I've been influenced by some of the greatest designers. Charles Eames. And Bruno Munari in the '50s in Italy - when they had to retool the industry of war into an industry to help society. In a way, I'm influenced by designers that were there at a radical time of change.

  

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• I'm not a tall man. I'm just a hair under 5'5.

  

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• The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• First time I walked out on the Opry stage, Vince Gill was there. He kind of 'daddied' me through the whole thing. My knees were knocking. I walked out there, and I was literally shaking. They say it's the spirits or the ghosts. And out of respect for that whole establishment, I was really really nervous.

  

  Randy Houser
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• Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.

  

  Fran Drescher
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• I don't just act to pay my rent. I really like doing it, so I get frustrated when I don't get to do it all the time, so short films are a really great way to be doing it and working with your friends, working on smaller, more specific things without limiting yourself in other ways.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
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• I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.

  

  Earl Weaver
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• The future is keeping you out of the present time.

  

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• If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.

  

  Barry Mann
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• Canadians are very proud of me, of my career.

  

  Karen Kain
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• I came to N.Y.C. in 1988 and got very involved with Act Up. I also started making movies, including two very gay shorts, 'Vaudeville' and 'Lady.' It was the height of the AIDS epidemic, and New York City was both dying and very alive at the same time.

  

  Ira Sachs
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• I was at the pinnacle of my career one day and the next day I was put out to pasture. I felt like a race horse with a broken leg.

  

  Jack Klugman
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• For a short time I was an assistant to a professional photographer, and I felt that my soul was not there. That is the stage when I decided to stay in London and do a graduate degree.

  

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• I love reading about the supernatural, and time-slip novels, and the mistress of both is Barbara Erskine.

  

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• The whole thing for me is that I did 'Full House' and 'America's Funniest Home Videos,' and I look like a dentist, and I'm a dad. Being known as a dirty comedian turned into this weird thing. It's people's image of me.

  

  Bob Saget
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• If you ask my promoters and managers, they will say I've never knocked back an opponent in my life.

  

  Liam Smith
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• I started off as a model and struggled for some time until I got a break as an actress. I was too stubborn to let go and was sure I was in the right place at the right time. I just fought and I think that's how I am where I am today.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
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• When you start your career, you have to figure out a way to separate yourself from the pack. So I went for a kind of preppy, psycho-killer look: I had short hair, grey flannel pants, and a button-down shirt. I think it worked, because nobody else was looking that way at that time.

  

  Loudon Wainwright III
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  • Career
  • Hair