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.
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I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.
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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.
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I was hoping, actually, that being on the other side of the camera in a scary movie, see how it's filmed and maybe you won't be as scared next time you watch one... didn't really work out! Because I know it's fake, but I just get so into it.
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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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Most people don't really like to pose. It is difficult to get them to be present and relaxed under this kind of molecular scrutiny. I want them to understand I'm not simply painting them: I am painting them within a precise moment in time, as a shadow moves across their eyebrows. Then it is gone. The moment is over.
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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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If you're having a down time at school and people are bullying you, they don't know you. They don't have the right to have an opinion on you.
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The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
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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.
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Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
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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.
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I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.
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A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
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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.
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Canadians are very proud of me, of my career.
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We had kind of a rocky start, but I spent a lot of time working with the President and handing him statistics and showing him what we were doing as we went along and kind of saying to him, you know, this is really important.
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I love thrillers - 'Dead Calm' is one of my favourite movies of all time.
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Men ought not to faint because men ought to pray.
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In my younger days, I loved to run. Although it may be hard for you to believe it, I did. And I did win a few races.
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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.
