Camryn Manheim Quotes
It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
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I never even held a guitar until I was 23 and living in California, but then loved it. I'm really not an accomplished instrumentalist. Maybe that has something to do with why I write and sing.
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I don't care what the critics say or think because I care for and love my fans.
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Everyone has hiccups in their families.
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
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Before I was 5, I did have a lot of time on my hands. I had no job and really no career, and I spent an awful lot of time listening to records. It was more the classical ones, really - Prokofiev, and I think there was some Mozart in there, and more impressionistic composers like Delius.
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My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
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Human attention is limited, and a massive number of newly browsable books from the long tail necessarily compete with the biggest best-sellers, just as cable siphons audience from the major networks, and just as the Web pulls viewers from TV.
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I'm not politically correct.
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I'm going for something very raw and organic.
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The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.
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I didn't beat her. I just pushed her out of bed.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary.
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To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god.
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Writing poetry, we live among the wild beasts, and when we touch a man, the stuff of someone in whom we believed, and he goes to pieces like a rotten pie, you... gather together whatever can be salvaged, while I cup my hands around the live coal of life.
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The teachers that we actually learn more from are the ones that taught us life lessons more than trigonometry. And they have such a huge responsibility and they're under-appreciated and underpaid. So that's my opinion of teachers.
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I'm a four-down guy. I can rush the passer and stop the run. I know I can be a difference-maker.
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There's nothing sillier than fake rough edges, like the handheld camera you sometimes see on "NYPD Blue," shaking and jittering around, unmotivated, way more than any actual documentary camera would.
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It never occurred to me that I'd be on a television show or in feature films but when those came into play my dreams changed along the way.
