Eli Broad Quotes
The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.
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I loved math and science. It just made sense to me. But my hatred for world history has come to bite me in the butt in my adult years. Every show I have done professionally has required me to study the world in which my characters lived.
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When you look at the roles I've done and the roles coming up, they're all strong. I guess I'm more drawn to that than that kind of submissive role females can be categorised as.
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We're seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics.
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I am very proud of the fact that I get to go out there every day and train in order to represent the Mexican people, and I can only hope they look up to me in a similar fashion.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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A certain number of people seek power over other people in a desperate attempt to find themselves. They fail, for self-discovery is spiritual in nature, not social or political. Authoritatively telling other people what to do is their distraction from an inner emptiness they can never fill.
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I'd love to do a movie where I actually get to be kind of quirky and odd and dorky and all that stuff. My parents would like to see some movies where I'm not in peril. They'd appreciate it.
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I think a lot of playwrights have a script in their bottom drawer that hopefully no one will ever see about a bunch of young people sharing a flat and getting up to crazy stuff.
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Because the GIs were sent massively to South Vietnam, maybe it's a good idea to have a broadcast for them.
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Any show that's bringing in a young audience is doing a good thing, because that's the only way that theater will continue to grow. All the other audience members are going to be dead soon!
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Dream and you shall become.
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The most common criticism I've seen is that I write 'popcorn fantasy:' lightweight action-adventure. Some people call it that as they explain why they love it for exactly that reason. I'm cool with that, either way. I just nod and let it go.
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I write about the trials and triumphs of contemporary life - and often the readers see themselves between the lines of the story.
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My grandmother was a church organist, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes.
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Lots of male friendships begin as a cheeky snog. Or a little undercurrent of flirtation.
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When I was 16, I had a really big hit in the K-pop world. It was a hip-hop/R&B/pop song. I kinda strayed from that because of the writers I was hanging out with.
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When someone doesn't react to changes, the changes turn against him.
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If you have less weight, you have less strength.
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I'm so mean I make medicine sick!
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I used to skip school and paint my face with Ace Frehley Kiss make-up.
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I went to school in California, at Stanford when I was seventeen, and I lived in San Francisco until I was twenty-three, and then I lived in Hungary for, like, a summer, and then I went to Iowa for three years. At Iowa, I actually did the fiction program, not poetry. I was a fiction writer for a long time before I was 'out' as a poet.
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Reality is only a term, based on values and well worn principles, whereas the dream goes on forever.
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The first dream I had was just to get a college education. I got through college in three years, taking extra classes in summer school.
