M. Stanton Evans Quotes
When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
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I always come to conclusions very fast. Well, that is one way of thinking, and the other way would be that I lack the necessary perseverance to stick to one thing that really fits me. I don't know if it's a good thing or bad thing.
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There's something scary about acting always, because basically you do all this work in a vacuum, and then suddenly there's a lot of money spent making a film, and there's suddenly a camera here, going, 'Right? What are you gonna do?'
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You will die but the carbon will not; its career does not end with you. It will return to the soil, and there a plant may take it up again in time, sending it once more on a cycle of plant and animal life.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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I'm kind of a private person.
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If you don't see something as a career but as an important part of your life, you don't know how you're going to feel about it.
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I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.
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'SNL' can be a stressful environment, and I am panicking constantly, but I guess I keep it pretty internal.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
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I want my son to become aware that he is in charge of the choices he makes, and it's good to make thoughtful, good choices.
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I retweet Amnesty International tweets a lot. It isn't just, 'This person is incarcerated unjustly.' It's also, 'This person was just released.' Those are the victories we work toward, so if we don't inform people of the victories, it does become doom and gloom.
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Then, when I got in the military, I used to host - even in high school - I hosted the talent shows, and when I was in the military I would host all of our base Christmas parties and stuff.
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There's a lot of comedy in 'The Guest,' so it was a bit more fun in a sense - it wasn't so heavy like 'It Follows.'
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I still wear my trousers baggy as I did in my teens. But in a different way. I've loved trainers since my youth - limited edition, vintage, whatever. You could recognise people and judge their character through their trainers. I'm a Nike man.
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I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.
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If women built the bridges or were meant to build the bridges, then they would have done it.
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But if you believe in Christ and that your main goal with your life is supposed to be to honor Him and do His will, then you don't have as much pressure as someone who bases all their happiness on whether they're a movie star.
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Thank God, I have sort of a pan-European accent rather than Russian, which doesn't sound very pleasantly to Americans. For them, we speak with a rather rude pitch, and that might be our actors' problem there. Now I've begun working with language coaches in Los Angeles to get rid of the accent completely.
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The fun thing about doing origin stories is you are introducing the audience to characters.
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You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
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People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
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The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
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When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
