Edward Herrmann Quotes
I think it's much richer and much more fun to be an artist than to be anything else. I can't think of a better life than acting.
Quotes to Explore
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
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Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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I'm quite a precious painter; my style is a messy fine art - sort of impressionist. I do portraits, I love painting other artists, but recently, I've been playing around with self portraits, putting on different characters.
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I stuff animals I find; I do roadkill. They're strangely fun to have. They're like easy-to-control pets.
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People will put restrictions on your ability, on your aptitude, on your talent, on your character, and to be honest, it's just opinion. Don't let anyone put you in a box or draw your path for you.
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Prohibition didn't work in the Garden of Eden. Adam ate the apple.
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Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.
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I don't think paper will go away. I do believe that the value of paper will change, and Xerox is working on changing that value. Consider a color page. Actual life is in color, but you keep reproducing it in black and white. You remove value. It's a bad thing to do.
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I made nothing happen very slowly.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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Food Stamp recipients didn't cause the financial crisis; recklessness on Wall Street did.
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It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.
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World-building numbs the reader's ability to fulfill their part of the bargain because it believes that it has to do everything around here if anything is going to get done. Above all, world-building is not technically necessary. It is the great clomping foot of nerdism. It is the attempt to exhaustively survey a place that isn't there.
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I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.
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It's so much fun playing Ling, but I have this fear that people are going to run away from me in terror on the streets. They think I'm going to bite their heads off or something.
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Writing Charles Dickens' biography is like writing five biographies.
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Being able to elicit the feeling of the unfathomable in intelligent adults is like falling in love.
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I think it's much richer and much more fun to be an artist than to be anything else. I can't think of a better life than acting.
