Anthony Rapp Quotes
When we did shoot in the East Village, they had to spread around a lot of trash and put transparencies of graffiti up in front of the walls.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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If we had a terrorist attack, the way the people respond is going to determine whether that attack is just a tragedy or whether that attack becomes an all-out disaster.
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I'm honored that I'm in history, but I don't think it would mean anything if it doesn't change anything.
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Let us have peace.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I really wasn't even sure if I should continue acting. I would like try and figure out if I could be good enough to do it. It was like 10 or 12 years into my career before I felt like maybe I can do it. It was such a different time than now.
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I have a rebellious teenage thing. If my mom says I can't do it, I'm gonna do it. But I'm pretty good. That's why it was fun to play Sam in 'The Bling Ring.' I got to be someone crazy and wild to the extreme, then go home and relax and get rid of the burden.
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You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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I'll tell you something: my dad was a nuclear engineer and he was really bright, and I've always said that because of negotiating at such a young age with my dad, it was really such a gift because I could then negotiate with very difficult personalities - and not end up being the scapegoat. I learned to really pick and choose my battles.
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I'd like to make something about someone who hasn't existed so that I don't have to tread so carefully and can feel a little bit more creative freedom.
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I'm an Indian-origin painter. I will remain so to my last breath.
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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Isolation is a dream killer.
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The major political battles about guns in our society concern handguns and assault weapons, not long arms like hunting rifles.
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The teachings of the New Testament are the most valuable guide to the best way to a civil and sustainable society the world has seen.
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We've all seen that every challenge we've gone through, we've learned something from. It's not getting hung up on the challenges but figuring out how to get ahead.
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What I find curious is that I ever became a writer at all. I grew up in the South Bronx, the land of poverty and petty hoodlums.
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When there were financial difficulties they still managed to provide us with music and art lessons.
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To be the windowpane - this is basically a bastardization of what Orwell said about good writing - so you can get the conversation going and frame it the right way and make sure people aren't lost. And then you let the candidates illuminate the issues themselves.
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When we did shoot in the East Village, they had to spread around a lot of trash and put transparencies of graffiti up in front of the walls.
