Armand Assante Quotes

The whole industry is so screwed up by economics. It's disgusting to me.

Armand Assante

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• Well, we like to let down our hair and pep it up at the dances, but we keep it slower when we broadcast. We have to please everybody, and that softer music appeals to the larger amount of people. It's like eating too much cake. You have to have your steak too.

  

  Vaughn Monroe
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• I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.

  

  Fay Godwin
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• The only way to do is just to go for it, otherwise it ends up looking phoney.

  

  Famke Janssen
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• The thing I don't miss is waking up in the morning, hurting, the grind of the game.

  

  Calvin Johnson
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• Whenever I go to L.A., the make-up artist or hairdresser will end up having a conversation about how fat they think they are, and I really just can't take it seriously at all.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• Here's the miracle: I grew up thinking, 'Wouldn't it be great to write 'Superman' someday? Wouldn't it be great to create my own show, or work on 'Lensman,' or 'Forbidden Planet?' Those were very literally the goals I set for myself, the dreams that I thought I didn't have a chance in hell of ever actually achieving. But it's happened.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
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• We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
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• If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.

  

  Larry Page
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• I always wrote. My parents are writers. It just seemed like something people did.

  

  Zoe Kazan
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• I started doing yoga in college, so that has just become a staple of a self-care routine for my mind and my body. My body craves it at this point, so I do it two to three times a week, sometimes more. I practice Vinyasa style yoga and sometimes mix it up.

  

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• The accidents of my life have given me the ability to make stories in which different parts of the world are brought together, sometimes harmoniously, sometimes in conflict, and sometimes both - usually both. The difficulty in these stories is that if you write about everywhere you can end up writing about nowhere.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• I had a low image of myself because I was brought up in the deep Depression.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
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• I was brought up by my mother and my two sisters, although they're older than me and fled the nest very young, so I was technically raised as an only child, but I was very much loved.

  

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• I would wake up really early and go into the hotel bathroom, put a towel over the toilet, and put my laptop there. I'd put my headphones on and just write. And so now when I do writing sessions, and I am stuck on a part, or I can't figure out a chorus, I'm just like, 'Give me a second,' and I'll go to that bathroom.

  

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• The first time I went on stage as an adult was touring with the Johnny Cash Show. I'd sang as a child. But my grown-up initiation was as part of that band.

  

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• Women are choosing to stay single rather than marry men who can't step up and provide.

  

  Hanna Rosin
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• People don't want to give up their SUVs. They don't want to turn the thermostat down in the winter and up in the summer.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
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• Declaring independence was the most traumatic decision I had to live up to. Because I didn't want to do it.

  

  Ian Smith
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• Fame does lead to money, which I don't have a close relationship with. I'm the kind of guy who never sees the money - it all goes somewhere else. I don't understand it, I don't like to deal with it. I have a fear of not having it, because I grew up without it.

  

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• It is very common for people to come up to the cast members and say, 'Our family is OK now because of 'Transparent.''

  

  Jay Duplass
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• This whole issue of Hindu-Muslim in India is completely overhyped.

  

  Azim Premji

• If Lincoln had an affair with a slave woman, it would be an outrage, but when Clinton does it with one of his staff, everyone is okay with it.

  

  Bob Dole

• I left the North when I was 21 to go to drama school in London, and I stayed there 12 years.

  

  Maxine Peake
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• The whole industry is so screwed up by economics. It's disgusting to me.

  

  Armand Assante
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