Kara DioGuardi Quotes
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I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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I prefer drama; I think character-driven drama is my favorite kind of stuff to go watch, and I like being challenged by that kind of stuff in that way.
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I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
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As you probably know, I've written a lot about the presidency, so it's obviously exciting when you get to interview a president and write about it.
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I think I'm a bit odd.
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Every ten years there is a new generation of actors.
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I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.
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Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
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I am a just man.
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Acting can be a narrow and isolated experience, because you only examine your particular part.
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Fashion is not art. Fashion is a business that requires discipline and attention to detail and very organized systems of logistics and operations and processes. But even with the most smoothly oiled machine to manage the business, without creativity, fashion could not exist.
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It's very rare, as an actor, to be someplace - to have an address, so to speak.
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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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If you have a great-sounding guitar that's a quality instrument and a good amp, and you know how to make the guitar talk, that's the key. It starts with the guitar and knowing what it should sound and feel like.
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I had a lot of fun in Cambodia, much more so in Cambodia than Vietnam.
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Because I feel 'Thor' is the beginning of finding my roots, and I found that I have family in America, I want to take my time and put effort on my future work so that foreign people get to know me better, and I also want to enjoy that process itself!
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I love fierce performers.
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The Apple mentality is really about creating focus, quality and a voice that people understand and can relate to.
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Israel is a mishmash of other cultures. It's like New Orleans; it's a meltdown of other cultures.
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The stuff I did in 'Rescue Me' was great. It gave me the opportunity to play comedy, and Denis Leary was the first one to take a chance with me. And from that experience, we had a comedy pilot that we did that I was going to play the lead in. And then 'Person of Interest' came along. They're all new experiences.
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It's a joy to be up close to Derek Jacobi's work. Alas, we haven't worked very much, over the years, since we were at university together, but I don't think I've missed many of his great shows and performances.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
