Angus Deaton Quotes
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I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
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It's just incredible how people come up to me and say, 'Gabby, you inspire me to do anything I can set my mind to.' It's truly an honor.
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As a young actor, I found myself in all these movies at once, with two big trilogies and a Cameron Crowe film and working with Ridley Scott a couple of times.
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I grew up in the '80s. I was a kid, but all my favorite movies came out of that period.
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I think the attraction to Israeli women stems from the fact that we're exotic and the fact that there are many talented and beautiful women in Israel. I think that there is also greater awareness of Israel than before in the movie industry.
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I have self-actualized. Pardon me whilst I adjust my glowing halo.
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Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor or a face, literally a person who just seems to exist in my imagination. Then the challenge is finding somebody who is close enough to that to make me feel like I've ended up where I wanted to be.
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The most emphatic place in a clause or sentence is the end. This is the climax; and, during the momentary pause that follows, that last word continues, as it were, to reverberate in the reader's mind. It has, in fact, the last word.
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Self-doubt kills talent.
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Like most ghetto kids I knew it was important to be 'somebody' so I became a good soccer player, because excelling at a sport seemed to make you special.
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Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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There was not a single Negro slave owner who did not know dozens of Negroes just as capable of learning and efficiency as the mass of poor white people around and about, and some quite as capable as the average slaveholder. They had continually, in the course of the history of slavery, recognized such men.
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It's hard to find a play that's right for me to do. Rather than waiting around for the right script to come along, I decided to write one myself.
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There is nothing I'm any more passionate than empowering the next generation.
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This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
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Listen to my voice - I sound like I'm permanently congested.
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I like a guy who uses his hips when he's dancing.
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Classic rock, psychedelic rock - I like to dig up old music and see what I can get influenced by.
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Adultery is the application of democracy to love.
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I want our young people to believe as we did that there is no goal too high to reach if they are willing to work.
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In England people are very proud of being very stupid.
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Sports have always been a really important part of how I energize myself, as well as how I relax. I spend a lot of my spare time with my family playing tennis, biking and rollerblading.
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High quality, open, transparent, and uncensored data are needed to support democracy.
