Adelaide Clemens Quotes
I really like being thrown into the works. Many actors, I have found, have this as a common trait. We had to, as children, adapt to various situations with either a military family or things like that.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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For every athlete, it is very important to be able to engage in their favorite thing, give all the best in training, performing in competitions, defending the honor of the motherland.
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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And eventually as I kept writing it, something emerged that was not quite me but a version of me.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
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An Editor becomes kind of your mother. You expect love and encouragement from an Editor.
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I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
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A lot of times, you think you want something, and then you find something completely different.
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I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
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It's better to be skinny than to be fat.
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The moon is a friend for the lonesome to talk to.
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I got drunk when I was five. Everybody gets drunk before they're 21.
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Having constant supporters and people who are always there and always giving back and knowing that they're loving what you're doing is always awesome to see.
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It's time we permanently repeal the tax on possessions that people leave to their children.
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I really like being thrown into the works. Many actors, I have found, have this as a common trait. We had to, as children, adapt to various situations with either a military family or things like that.
