Xander Berkeley Quotes
It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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Mental health is seen as a massive drag to have to write about - worthy, dull. Something you should 'have' to read / write about.
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You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.
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I can't remember 16 bars. Unless you write it, you can't. I just do it bar for bar.
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Would you believe in what you believe in if you were the only one who believed it?
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Once you give up rights, they're not going to give them back.
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The most nurturing of directors can make you feel too comfortable, and you don't really push for that extra whatever.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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NoScript is probably the most important privacy tool, but it costs you in convenience.
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All my life, I've been working with male directors, which I've really enjoyed. And I'm lucky in that I've worked with men who have a lot of respect for women. But working with a woman is a different experience. It feels like the communication is different.
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Liberalism is assisting quality of life, whatever you may choose.
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When you want something very dearly, you make the time.
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I tried for years to get an agent because I was told you needed an agent. The agent-hunting process was grim indeed.
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There are a lot of actors who will sit here and talk to you about characters - 'He does this, and she's a really interesting character because she does this.' I'm not like that at all. I'm not an actory actor.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 23 - he has used his success in lots of different ways - but there are people out there for whom acting is: 'Ooh, I can get on the telly and be famous.'
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To me, I think justice is part of forgiving, if it is well done with love.
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The answers are all out there, we just need to ask the right questions.
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I'm concentrating on staying healthy, having peace, being happy, remembering what is important, taking in nature and animals, spending time reading, trying to understand the universe, where science and the spiritual meet.
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I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.
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It's exciting that you've got an entire season to experience 24 hours of highly dramatically charged human experience. It allows for the close inspection of minutiae in behaviour.
