Edwin Hubbell Chapin Quotes
No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
Quotes to Explore
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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I actually signed on to do 'On the Road' before we started on 'Tron,' but we were in flux for a while, just sort of playing the waiting game, trying to get the right budget and the right cast.
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Before discovering theater, I was sloughing off and didn't have any passion for school. Then I couldn't get enough. All of a sudden, I was getting good parts in all of these plays. I just loved it. I started getting A's in acting, directing and technical theater. I found something that clicked.
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Do your job; be the best at whatever your job description is.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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I've fondly dreamed of becoming the face of an important brand since I was a child, in the same way that others dream of becoming an astronaut. I dreamed of this as I first and foremost dreamed of becoming an actor and would look up at these huge posters of celebrities while driving along motorways or crossing under bridges.
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I've never, ever done a piece of work - and can't imagine doing a piece of work - when I've thought, 'I was pretty perfect in that.'
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If you have reason to think that yesterday's forecast went wrong, there is no glory in sticking to it.
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I mean normally you have your agent call the other agent and all the agents talk and then finally you get a phone call and you hear some misrepresentation of what someone else had to say.
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Once in a while, I do these things that would make the 10-year old version of me laugh. I don't know why. You've got to do something a little bit immature. I'm surprised at how often those are my best ideas.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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I am just an artiste, and I like to explore new avenues.
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Whether I like it or not, I've become influential to people.
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What really promotes business in this country is liberty, not demand for information.
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I've actually been turned down for jobs because I was in Playboy.
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We want New Hampshire to be a haven for entrepreneurs and inventors - the people who are creating the products and good-paying jobs of the future.
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Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?
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In 2010, there was a TED event called Mission Blue held aboard the Lindblad Explorer in the Galapagos as part of the fulfillment of Sylvia Earle's TED wish. I spoke about a new way of exploring the ocean, one that focuses on attracting animals instead of scaring them away.
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If you do not understand what God's present claims over you are, you may depend upon it that as days of testing come on you will not be able to keep your footing.
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When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.
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Having a mustache and never smiling became a permanent component of my persona through the quaintly self-important decade of the seventies.
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Before an individual can be saved, he must first learn that he cannot save himself.
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Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this.
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No more duty can be urged upon those who are entering the great theater of life than simple loyalty to their best convictions.
