Edward G. Robinson Quotes
In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger and taller, and much handsomer than I.
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If you don't have a teacher you can't have a disciple.
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Unfortunately, man, a lot of places in America have to deal with unnecessary violence. Somebody like me who knows it firsthand and could relate... I had a best friend killed, plenty other friends killed. I been through it. I seen it.
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Until now, I was insecure and I believed what the people around me said in regarding what I should sing.
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
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I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.
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The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'
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Filming '24' is just like watching '24.'
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In March 1950, in New York City, I was married to Marietta Soffer. We have three children: Vilhelm, Tomas, and Margrethe.
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Many years ago, in the throes of my struggles on the PGA Tour, I had difficulty even getting into pro-ams. I needed money, so I put together a 45-minute magic show I'd perform at corporate events surrounding the tournament.
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Wanting to be a rock star, I get it. I'm like, 'Oh, my God, dude! The freedom!'
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For the BBC and others, a free website is an obvious and relatively cheap addendum to their main purpose of streaming news and entertainment on screen to a mass audience.
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I'm a big fan of Fetty Wap.
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Ground troops... have to be a last resort. I think they should always be a last resort.
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My parents screened 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' for my 6th birthday, and I became fascinated by the idea of living in a candy land with chocolate rivers and lollipop trees.
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I believe in fate, but I also believe that hard work and diligence plays a very important role in our lives.
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If you say you plan to retire in two or three years, you've already retired.
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Atticus Finch is, you know, he was just his whole - the business of his modesty and his ability to see tomorrow and to try to buttress his knowledge of what was coming for his kids was something that I'll never - as a father I'm not able to do.
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It's widely assumed that you can't compete with free, and that seems like a reasonable thing to think. But this has not been my experience.
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I can't wait until dissent is patriotic again.
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When you find the one thing in your life you believe in above anything else, you owe it to yourself to stand by it—it will never come again, child. And if you believe in it unwaveringly, the world has no other choice but to see it as you do, eventually. For who knows it better than you? Don’t be afraid to take a difficult stand, darling. Find the one thing that matters—everything else will resolve itself.
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People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.
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I had a couple friends from all the different cliques in school, but my true friends were my gymnastics teammates. I grew up competing with them for ten years.
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In those days I would go for an interview and find myself competing with this other chap who would always be younger and taller, and much handsomer than I.
