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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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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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 don't know how many hills and valleys I've had, how many times I've had to refocus my world and my life and my career.
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Stand-up comedians say that anyone in the audience can be funny, but people paid to see us because we're just a little bit funnier. In the same way, I think anybody can play music - in fact, I think everyone has music in them, but some of us can do it a little better.
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It doesn't help anybody to put out a bad script.
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Whoever is gripped by God's spirit turns to his creation with all the interest that comes from God's love.
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In Hollywood I got work but not the right work until Pushing Daisies. Every girl in LA wanted the part of Chuck. I was terrified - I didn't know if I could be funny.
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Old music used to mean something. There is none of that today.
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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.
