Walter Huston Quotes
Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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If you can be a good example to other people, why not try to be that person? I have a bit of a people pleaser in me, but not so much so that it's out of control.
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I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.
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I feel like Adele is a diva. Not in the bad way. She is one of the greatest voices of this industry and of her own art. What she offers is so unique that she's risen to such a status that very few artists can enjoy.
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If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work. So as an author, I need to write what I need to write.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I began going to juvenile prisons. And some of these kids face some very, very tough lives. How do they handle these lives? Do they even know that if their life is bad, that they're still OK? Do they know that? Do they know that someone is thinking the same way that they're thinking?
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Everything has become so easy. It's great that it's at your fingertips, but I miss those good old days. And we're connected, but it can be very alienating. There is this distance between all of us because we're speaking to each other through cameras and monitors and icons and Emojis.
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I never was able to do karate. That's calling me a good actor. I act like I can do anything.
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I was very lucky. Things happened, both bad and good, but I never got into real, deep trouble. But it wore me down. By the time I was 18, I was done. I didn't want to live the life any more. I needed to develop past the point that busking takes you to.
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If I go into a restaurant there's a very good chance that I'm going to spend my time being the mayor. If I want to have a good time, I'm happier having dinner here.
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I never thought I was a very good manager.
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Good investors must learn to contextualize the daily background noise.
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When people recognize your work and want to reward you for what you've done, that's a good feeling.
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Everything I did in high school was focused on microbiology, looking at things like algae under a microscope for hours on end. When I was 13, I saved up $100 to buy a good used microscope. I was obsessed with microorganisms.
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The thing that intrigued me about 'Breaking Bad' from day one was the idea of taking a character and transforming him.
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Of course, I'm not allowed to talk about the script, but I can say it is a really good story.
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I think if you're fame-hungry, go out to a nightclub and get drunk... why do that? I don't understand how some people would want fame so bad that they'd go out and get negative attention to earn it.
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We try to be driven by what's a good story, what's truthful, and the drama of what happens next.
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I was a very, very good congressman.
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No other country on earth could have provided such tremendous opportunities and we should never take the privilege of our citizenship for granted.
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How can you get bored if the audience is cheering and laughing at something you're doing?
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Hell, I ain't paid to make good lines sound good. I'm paid to make bad lines sound good.
