Anton Yelchin Quotes
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I'm a championship handball player. I'm a championship softball and baseball player. I used to be an extremely talented center in high school in football. I also dabbled in lacrosse and soccer. I'm really good at billiards, darts, shuffleboard.
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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You can go to the doctor a million times if you're feeling down, and get nowhere, but if you go for a run it makes you feel really good.
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I think I've been influenced by everything I've ever heard. The first thing I ever heard was my grandma, who was an opera singer. The first song I ever learned was the 'Nessun Dorma' from Puccini's 'Turandot.' My father was a big band singer, so I used to hear him walking around the house singing standards all the time.
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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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Not long ago I made a list of Doc Ford books I would like to do, and I came up with 11 pretty easily. I like to let the characters go their own ways and see what happens. I find them fascinating.
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Political theatre presents an entirely different set of problems. Sermonising has to be avoided at all cost. Objectivity is essential. The characters must be allowed to breathe their own air. The author cannot confine and constrict them to satisfy his own taste or disposition or prejudice.
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The whole melodrama of the Middle East would be improved if amnesia were as common here as it is in melodramatic plots.
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I saw 'The Artist.' It's really beautiful and it's all done to the letter with all the silent film techniques. The costumes were amazing and the dog is so good.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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All of the religions are looking after the poor. At least leave me alone to look after the rich. I am the rich man's guru.
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I look at my music in the beginning, and the sexual songs, the partying songs, those are the realities because those things happen.
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Then this will only prove again and again, that Monarchy in Germany is he longer capable of a national act.
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It is true that women in Paris never put on make-up. It shocked me when I first got there – then I realised how much I liked it.
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I don't like the info-dump, as it's known.
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Success doesn't necessarily come from breakthrough innovation but from flawless execution. A great strategy alone won't win a game or a battle; the win comes from basic blocking and tackling.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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Imagine any problem you have to be a huge, locked door standing in front of you. Now see yourself taking a golden key out of your pocket. You brought the key here with you when you arrived on this planet, but you sometimes forget to use it. See yourself putting it into the keyhole, then watch the door swing open. On the key are inscribed these words, "Unconditional Love."
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Going across the Tannai Desert was one of the spookiest experiences I've ever had. Not driving during the day; that was fine. And so we camped in an old sort of truck siding, I think. And the silence. The eerie silence and then a dingo howling, and it was just so spooky. I didn't sleep all night.
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The endeavor of being a foreign correspondent means that you will never be their equal. And that has its pros and cons. Were you to be an insider in a particular society, then you would be one of them, and the way you would write about that society would be very different. When you're brought up in a certain way, you have certain blind spots to the things going on in your culture. There is an illumination the outsider brings to a place or a situation that cannot be duplicated.
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Life's philosophy, hm... I just say, 'Do what you do and have fun doing it and try not to be too miserable.'
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Maybe silence is something we're uncomfortable with as a culture, I don't know.
