Cory Monteith Quotes
I think if you show up and you work hard and you're straightforward, you can always create your own opportunities. I hope I'm right.
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
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I think when you're dealing with very tenuous scenes and difficult and heavy subject matter, it's important to be close intimately with your cast as friends, and be able to diffuse a lot of that tension and trust each other with the work.
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I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope.
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I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me.
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Back in the day, when the D.J. would be playing a record, I'd be on the mic trying to hype up the crowd. So once Public Enemy became a rap group, I decided that that's the role that I wanted to take on. I wanted to be the one that was hyping, because I've always been good at it. I can hype up any crowd.
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People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
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I love doing impressions of politicians because the task is always to imagine the private lives of these people whose job it is to project an image of staunch, unflinching leadership and grace, and that's just not how human beings, in their heart of hearts, work.
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Boats are something I am very, very passionate about; cars are something I grew up with... I used to race cars since I was a child.
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I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.
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Growing up in a small town gives you two things: a sense of place and a feeling of self-consciousness - self-consciousness about one's education and exposure, both of which tend to be limited. On the other hand, limited possibilities also mean creating your own options.
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Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was not engaged in subversive work; she was an apolitical project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the Reuters news agency.
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The only really conscious decision I made was to cast my net wide and if the work was good, to do it.
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Glory is attained from hard work, step by step.
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Whenever you're scared of something, don't let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.
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I started out with a dream to make a star in a jar in my garage, and I ended up meeting the President of the United States!
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People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.
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Once you wake up and smell the coffee, it's hard to go back to sleep.
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I believe much of the pain of a breakup comes from having a life plan that you have fallen in love with. When it does not work out, you become angry that you now have to pursue a new life plan.
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As a stand up, and often in acting, there is no place for the most intense feelings. Rage, genuine sorrow, naked hope... These things don't fit on a comedy stage and if you act you'll get to express them once in a while. Music is a place for the intensely personal.
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The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow.
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I spent most of high school working on the debate team, probably at some expense to my grades. Being a member of the team was great training in critical analysis, organization, and logic.
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I think if you show up and you work hard and you're straightforward, you can always create your own opportunities. I hope I'm right.
