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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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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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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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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Originally, I wanted a pop career and formed a girl-band 'Genie Queen' managed by Andy McClusky from 'Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark', but it didn't work out. My brother John is the talented singer and song-writer with 'The Razz,' while my other brother Sean is a footballer for Telford United.
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A man has made at least a start on discovering the meaning of human life when he plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit.
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I can't form a total picture of things. Because I'm not her.
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As an actor, you just like to be able to play as much range. I just want to be invisible. I want to be able to be perceived as an artist as opposed to 'a black actor': that's the joy.
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The past 6 and a half years have been the most amazing years of my life. It's sad it has come to an end but Avril and I are still family and moving forward in the most positive way possible.
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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.
