Angus Deaton Quotes
The Nobel thing is like dying and going to heaven for a while. It's like being transported to a fairyland.
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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
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Normally, when congee is served, the different condiments and garnishes are placed in little bowls on the side so diners can make their own personal creations.
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Working with the brothers can put pressure on my voice, so I choose to do my own solo thing so I can save my voice. I couldn't do both now. The Neville Brothers is a funk band; they play loud, and I have a strong voice.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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Anyone who sets foot into the 'Watchmen' universe and isn't just a little nervous should be given a few days of electroshock therapy. I've always considered 'Watchmen' to be one of the best graphic novels ever written, and when it came out back in 1986 I was as blown away as everyone else. Just masterful.
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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There are times when what's happening in rock is the best music in the world, and there are times when there is nothing worthwhile at all.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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There are many things that matter much more than an editor's gender in shaping the direction of the leadership.
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
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My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.
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I am an actor who doesn't believe in carrying an 'image' in the industry. I don't want to get trapped in an image.
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Until 'Moonlight,' I had never seen one black man cook for another on screen. But I wanted the characters to be free of 'groundbreaking' or 'never before.' We were ascribed those things. They weren't the point.
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I believe that in the long run, separation between Israel and the Palestinians is the best solution for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
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Whatever you build, you're building for the family - not with an eye toward getting away, but with an eye toward adding to the family pie.
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Term limits aren't enough. We need jail.
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How at heaven's gates she claps her wings,The morne not waking til she sings.
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The brightest ornaments in the crown of the blessed in heaven are the sufferings which they have borne patiently on earth.
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The higher the hair, the closer to heaven.
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In my beginning is my end.
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The thing that I love about 'Scandal' is every character, it's not clear if they're good or bad. Everyone is both good and bad.
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The Nobel thing is like dying and going to heaven for a while. It's like being transported to a fairyland.
