Anthony Zerbe Quotes
I really love being onstage - that's kind of home base - but I love the camera, too. I love it all.
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Anonymity breeds meanness.
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I get up, go and get a coffee, and go do the crossword - I'm loyal to one particular paper, the 'Guardian' - and that's my idea of a perfect morning.
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Any art worthy of its name should address 'life', 'man', 'nature', 'death' and 'tragedy'.
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Some borrowers are pretty damn good at fraud.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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If I want to tuck my son into bed and read him a story, but that means I have to take a red-eye to get to a concert - which I would never think of doing otherwise - that's just the way it is. Even if I can't hit the note that night, I got to tuck my child in!
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I don't want to be competing in a sport where I feel that I'm here not on my talent and my hard work but because of a piece of equipment.
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At age three, if you have a still-growing brain, it's a human behavior. In chimps, by age three, the brain is formed over 90 percent. That's why they can cope with their environment very easily after birth - faster than us, anyway. But in humans, we continue to grow our brains. That's why we need care from our parents.
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We are breaking new ground in the territory of dumb with 'Shooting Fish.' Dumb, but in good taste. Silly, but not ridiculous.
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There will be mental worries with the long jump before Rio, but I know I can get through it. It's just getting my confidence back. I know I have a big jump in me.
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I'm somebody who listens to a lot of funk, a lot of James Brown, and I want to be somebody who contributes all that energy to the mainstream.
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We're in this entertainment business really to give the audience what they want.
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At the age of 16, my father's father dropped dead of a heart attack. And I think it changed the course of his life, and he became fascinated with death. He then became a medical doctor and obviously fought death tooth and nail for his patients.
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I love my parents. Coming out to them was sort of coming out to myself. I educated them, and I wanted our relationship to keep growing. I wanted them to be a part of my life still. I wanted to be able to share with them what I was going through.
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Van Gogh never made a penny in his entire lifetime. He painted because it was his soul, his excitement. It was what aligned him with his Source of being. It's the same with me and writing.
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When you're a kid growing up, you say you want to make it to the Major Leagues, and when you reach that dream, that's what it's all about.
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One of my core values is diversity of everything.
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I grew up in the middle of everything. I walked the streets alone, I rode the trains alone, I came home at three in the morning alone; that was what I did.
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Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.
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I really love being onstage - that's kind of home base - but I love the camera, too. I love it all.
