Edward James Olmos Quotes
Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.
Quotes to Explore
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When life knocks you down, keep getting up.
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When I went to college, I was so focused on this new experience of my life that I really just pushed down all of my fears of hell and damnation.
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Country music is three chords and the truth.
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I worked as a head cook at courthouses and high schools. I left it behind when I started getting into my music real heavy.
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Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.
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I know someone from growing up who is in jail right now for the rest of his life, but he was one of the sweetest people I ever knew.
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I'm shy. I am. I mean, if I get around, you know, in a room of a bunch of people especially I - you know, I don't know or - it takes me a while to warm up. I'm - and the real me, I'm not as witty as, you know, as the comic Wanda. The comic, she's had time to work on some things.
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I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
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Dreams take you beyond what you think you can do in life.
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You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right.
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Life is such a gift, I just say thank you all day.
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I have a real interest in baking. I'd love to go to culinary school. That's actually my plan: to graduate high school and go to culinary school.
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After a decade in public life working to stop Iran from ever acquiring nuclear weapons, I cannot support a deal giving Iran billions of dollars in sanctions relief - in return for letting it maintain an advanced nuclear program and the infrastructure of a threshold nuclear state.
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This character in the film, these things that he says which sound like advice and wise things, they are very common for Orientals. It's all the tradition.
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Out of all the clubs who were interested, I got the feeling that, deep down, Chelsea showed that they really wanted me. There were lots of reasons I came to Chelsea. They showed a real desire to get me to come here. I didn't have to think about it too much.
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I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
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Snowden has yet to tell me anything that was a fact that I have been able to rebut or that anybody in the U.S. government I have talked to has been able to rebut.
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I have had the most wonderful time on 'EastEnders' and I will miss you all. The show has changed my life and I want you all to continue the good work, because I'll be at home watching you.
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I've always loved pinup art, and I've always enjoyed drawing women. I think it was a conscious decision that has resulted in me getting almost exclusive work on comics where the main character is female.
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At the end of the day, I want to be known for my ability to create life from words.
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We give up what we want to give up and keep what in some way we still want to keep. There are payoffs for holding on to small, weak patterns. We have an excuse not to shine. We don't have to take responsibility for the world when we're spending all our time in emotional pain. We're too busy. The truth that sets us free is an embrace of the divine within us.
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And we have the most scrutinized election system in the United States, and we have met every test.
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Neither my life of luxury in the palace -nor- my life as ascetic in the forest were ways to enlightenment.
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Basically, I think that there are some characters that you can just allow the truth of your character as a human being in your real life to come through.
