Elias Koteas Quotes
I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse, but every time I show up on set it still feels like the first time.
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Especially working in infectious disease, it's very interesting because these infectious diseases, these agents, they evolve over time. So it's very much an arms race and understanding how each changes to protect itself and to continue. And so it's very much this puzzle-solving but with this great urgency and importance in what you find.
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I'm very proud of my Nigerian heritage. I wasn't fortunate enough to be raised in a heavy Nigerian environment, because my parents were always working. My father was with D.C. Cabs and my mother worked in fast food and was a nurse.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.
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If you taste something, you're not at the maximum of your ability. What I think about in competition is temperature and texture. It has nothing to do with taste or emotion.
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I've tried coconut water straight up before, and to me, it's a little funky.
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Of one thing there is no doubt: if Paris makes demands of the heart, then Munich makes demands of the stomach.
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Depending on where my self-confidence was, growing up, I would use humor either to bring people closer, or to keep them away from certain feelings I had.
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One of the problems in the Navy is that tradition of being captain of the ship. And an awful lot of people can be retired in the Navy, get over it, get a life, and go on. But there's a lot who can't. And when they have to give up the ship, they got to be captain of something, every single day.
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I was only 23 and just out of college when I filmed 'Casualty' and so nervous, but it was brilliant fun. I was really lucky, and it really helped my career.
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Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
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I did ballet and gymnastics, and then I started acting when I was eight - just doing amateur theater at a place called Oldham Theatre Workshop in my hometown.
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We were at the dark end of the L.A. punk scene, and that scene was full-on and violent and aggressive and wild and intense.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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Jesse McCartney is one of the nicest people around. I hate when I hear bad things about him, because anyone who knows him would agree that he's a good guy and really humble.
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I don't know if I'm a method actor.
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My involvement in the political arena is to make sure there's a place for culture.
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The magic of creation has always fascinated me.
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When you grow up close to poultry and fields and gardens and open-air markets, you can't help but develop an instinct for quality food.
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The Internet seems to have killed American fashion in the sense that everybody has good style, but they also look vaguely the same.
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The Ku Klux Klan is the most profligate domestic terrorist organization in this country's history.
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The Bible says, 'The truth shall make you free.' But let's not forget it was Spiro Agnew who said that a good lie will keep you out of jail in the first place.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse, but every time I show up on set it still feels like the first time.
