Cory Monteith Quotes
I'm pretty focused on my career, and if it comes down to hanging out with somebody or learning my lines, it's gonna be learning my lines.
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I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.
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So much of writing isn't the fun parts like we get to discuss. It is sitting there putting the words down.
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I've been traveling all over the world for 25 years, performing, talking to people, studying their cultures and musical instruments, and I always come away with more questions in my head than can be answered.
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On my teams, as a guy who grew up hunting and fishing, I was in the minority in terms of music and lifestyle. I became good friends with people who listened to R&B and rap. But it wasn't just an issue of being around it - I was naturally drawn to it right off the bat.
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To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.
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When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.
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To prosper and advance, the American business sector is going to need a financial system oriented toward business, not 'home ownership.'
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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I found that if I don't paint for around a week, I get practically suicidal. It took a long time to figure out why I had these mood swings, and I finally figured out it's because I haven't painted.
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When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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I love how, when you're a teenager, you're really opinionated, you're really right, you can't be wrong, and you don't know any better.
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It's an endless proving of myself, that I really am a musician, that I have something to offer in the room. That women can be musicians, women can be rock stars, women can be more than an objectified idea of a pop star.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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I want to see as many movies as I can and I covet a lot of weird influential movies.
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Football games on Friday nights followed by field parties every weekend was how I spent my high school years.
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I obviously irritate people. I obviously antagonise them.
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A single woman who supports herself is called a career woman, while a single man who supports himself is called a playboy…Ironically, a woman who commits and becomes financially dependent is considered more mature than a man who does not commit but is financially independent.
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I do a lot of media work, I've been investing and I'm involved with real estate. It's totally different from what I had been doing but I find it challenging and fun. To be honest, I really don't miss the track. I pretty well accomplished what I set out to do and it was time to move on.
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Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.
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People really think that the only way I got to be press secretary is because I somehow had a personal family connection to the Bushes or the Cheneys, and that wasn't true.
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I'm pretty focused on my career, and if it comes down to hanging out with somebody or learning my lines, it's gonna be learning my lines.
