Kevin Eubanks Quotes
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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Kids have a great sense of humour. If you don't, you're going to miss out.
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To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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So many of these comics are just frustrated singers or actors - they want to get a gig doing a sitcom. It's paint-by-the-numbers comedy, lame joke-telling. They're drawn to it as a career move.
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In terms of animation, animators are actors as well. They are fantastic actors. They have to draw from how they feel emotionally about the beat of a scene that they're working on. They work collaboratively.
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I seem to have very polite fans, not fanatical ones.
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Just as a physicist has to examine the telescope and galvanometer with which he is working; has to get a clear conception of what he can attain with them, and how they may deceive him; so, too, it seemed to me necessary to investigate likewise the capabilities of our power of thought.
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Letter to Hitler, quoted in Winston Churchill's The Gathering Storm:
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It's not like I'm dying to do work that's taken seriously, and I'm not looking to become a thespian. It's not what I'm looking for; I'm just looking to do quality work.
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My love life doesn't stink; it's nonexistent.
