Adrian Cronauer Quotes
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It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience.
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Harpists spend 90 percent of their lives tuning their harps and 10 percent playing out of tune.
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The older I get, the more I understand that the only way to say valuable things is to lose your fear of being correct.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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All the musicians I loved growing up were men. I loved Leonard Cohen, Mick Jagger. I loved Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. Even today, I love Van McCann from Catfish and the Bottlemen and Matt Healy from The 1975.
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By far, the best moment of my big league career was when I caught the last out at the World Series.
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Investment in early education is not a Liberal or Conservative idea. Nor should it be decided along party lines.
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My connection with Basquiat was really in Los Angeles, which really was a whole different world to what he was experiencing in New York.
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Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
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I don't think I ever really got interested in theater.
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The introduction of political pluralism often quickly led to bad results.
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I starved and slept on park benches. I wrapped myself in the pages of my manuscript to keep warm. For two and a half years I took odd jobs; nothing was going to deter me.
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I get very nervous before I get on the stage, but once I'm on the stage, I'm just, you know, me. Nothing hurts me.
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In the U.K., I came from a talent show. I was watched by millions of people, so instantly when I came out from the show, people knew who I was.
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I owe a lot to my time on 'House of Cards' because, up until I booked that show, I had been working consistently for 12 years, but I wasn't working on anything that mattered in the way 'House of Cards' did to its audience, to casting directors, to directors and producers. The show hit this sweet spot.
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I'm always in search for perfection. If it's not perfect, I'm back to the drawing board.
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I try to create songs that are really massive and intense, but at the same time remaining honest and raw.
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Instead, we try to apply Aesop's 2,600-year-old equation to opportunities in which we have reasonable confidence as to how many birds are in the bush and when they will emerge (a formulation that my grandsons would probably update to 'A girl in a convertible is worth five in the phonebook.').
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Sir, my life, drab and insipid though it may seem to others, is the only life given me to live.
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I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs.
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Prayer is a powerful thing; for God has bound and tied himself thereunto.
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When you're playing a real character, you want to honor that person and receive inspiration from that person. They need to anoint you in some way that allows you to borrow just a small piece of their soul. That is the flame.
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Without amendments we would never even have had the Bill of Rights.
