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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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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I grew up with three little brothers. Every Christmas, we'd have piles of toy trucks and Lincoln Logs and G.I. Joes under the tree. Those were for them. For me? My No. 1 favorite present of all time: books. Two or three tall stacks of wonderful stories that I could lose myself in for weeks.
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I had been playing polo, and I decided to give up at the age of 50.
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I feel good being a black woman; I've always felt good.
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My biggest thing is telling a truthful story, something that is rooted in something and is very honest. If I read a script and you want me to take off my top, and it doesn't serve a purpose, then I'm not going to do it.
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In my neighborhood in Springfield, Ohio, there were a lot of young kids. We all played tackle football after school, but I knew very early on that I was not an athlete.
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An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.
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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.
