Kevin Bales Quotes
Throughout all of human history slaves have been expensive capital purchase items. And today they're disposal inputs like styrofoam cups to an economic process.
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When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.
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One of my strengths is connecting with the players.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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It's nice to get any awards, whether it's lifetime achievement or the Keith Richards award for being alive one more year.
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The only morality I'm interested in is the morality between your ears, between each player's ears, because that's the interesting thing to me.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
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When high school students ask to spend their afternoons and weekends in my laboratory, I am amazed: I didn't develop that kind of enthusiasm for science until I was 28 years old.
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.
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Don't use your advance to buy an antique sports car, diamonds by the yard, or a bottle of wine from Thomas Jefferson's cellar instead of investing in your book.
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Maybe I'm the kind of athlete who absorbs the atmosphere instead of trying to block it out.
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I think, especially in pop culture, we're brought up to think that a normal pop star is this pretty, well-kept-together girl.
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
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Yoga is meant for the purification of body and its exploration as well as for the refinement of the mind.
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There simply isn't a way to do the show without investing in a bunch more companies.
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I arrived in the middle of a press conference - as boring a thing to sit through if you don't know the language as it is if you do.
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It's harder, but we're still finding oil in Oklahoma today. The bar has been raised on startup companies, but it can still be done. Every regulation and every rule limits you, but, yes, it can still be done. That's the beauty of living in a free country and having the freedom to have an idea and become an entrepreneur.
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Throughout all of human history slaves have been expensive capital purchase items. And today they're disposal inputs like styrofoam cups to an economic process.
