Eliot Sumner Quotes
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Those who condemn gay marriage, yet are silent or indifferent to the breakdown of marriage and divorce, are, in my view, missing the real issue.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I'm someone who wears their heart on their sleeve.
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Any story hits you harder if the person delivering it doesn't sound like some news robot but in fact sounds like a real person having the reactions a real person would.
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Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
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Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.
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The progress of India is the destiny of one-sixth of humanity. And it will also mean a world more confident of its prosperity and more secure about its future.
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I hope that one day when I'll go back to Pakistan, I will build a university like Harvard.
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Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.
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I'm not a fan of soccer, for sure not.
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I play as I feel.
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Singing and dancing is not just for the cast of 'Glee'. We can wake up doing both and have it be a natural expression of who we are.
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I had the benefit of watching good people show me what it really is to be an actor – the day in and day out of it.
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I do think that I can sing, though I actually like voices I can't imitate.
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Obviously, that off-the-ice battle I went through, plus injuries I came back from, I always felt the fans are really knowledgeable there and respected and appreciated guys that gave whatever they had and guys that fought through things.
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I'm often accused of being prudish, but the opposite is true.
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The citizens of America expect more. They deserve and they want more than a recital of problems.
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To the uneducated, an A is just three sticks.
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I progressed through so many different styles of music through my teen years, both as a player and a vocalist, particularly the jazz and pop of the early 20th Century.
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Rock music was the death of jazz in a way. I know there's a bunch of people who say jazz isn't dead, but I mean, rock 'n roll, you play three chords to 20,000 people; jazz, you play 20,000 chords to three people.
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The most significant New York club for me was Paradise Garage, where they played house music. This was around '84 or '85.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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I don't think men approach me for intellectual conversation.
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Music is the only thing that I trust.
