Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes
When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to receive.
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I am always locked in my design studio.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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As Governor, I've worked to solve problems the New Hampshire way - bringing together Democrats, Republicans and Independents to help hard-working Granite Staters adapt to our changing economy so that everyone has the opportunity to get ahead and stay ahead.
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I consider my education to be the first 10 years of my career.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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If it's nice out, I swim pretty much every day for about half an hour. I have a great pool; it's very private and not too many people use it.
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The pianist Cecil Taylor is extremely melodic; the guitarist Derek Bailey is extremely melodic, and Ornette Coleman.
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It is always good to explore the stuff you don't agree with, to try and understand a different lifestyle or foreign worldview. I like to be challenged in that way, and always end up learning something I didn't know.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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But I don't like to, tell people how old I am. I like that to be a mystery.
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To change what you get, you must change who you are.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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I have never gotten a B in my life. I would honestly be mortified if I got a B. I'm so academically driven.
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Outside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry.
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All things considered, I could never have survived my youth without Wagnerian music. For I seemed condemned to the society of Germans. If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take to hashish. Well, I had to take to Wagner...
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To fall suddenly sick when you have never been ill is a hard lesson. If it teaches anything, it teaches you that you must not trust to the thing you know, that it is better to build on shifting sand than the rock which may confound you on the day it shatters.
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[Moralistic] novels are at the same disadvantage as teachers: children never believe them, because they make everything that happens relate to the lesson at hand.
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Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.
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When trust is perfect and there is no doubt, prayer is simply the outstretched hand ready to receive.
