Conrad Ricamora Quotes
The mistake people that want to be actors make is to move to New York or L.A. right away. But it's like... go act somewhere first. Be an actor. A story is a story, and an audience is an audience, no matter where you're doing it.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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I have to protect myself because people think that because you come into 25 million homes every week, they know you. I walk the line between being gracious and being rude.
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The reason a poet is a poet is to write poems, not to advertise himself as a poet.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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The body dies, but the spirit that transcends it cannot be touched by death.
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I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.
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I'm a really bad liar.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.
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I'm an actor, and I'm supposed to reflect real people.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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Albanians are a nation of freedom fighters who know something about living under oppression.
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When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.
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What made me want to go into doing comics was I was working as a laborer with my father, a gardener.
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My last divorce was in '68. What made it come to a head was a promise. See, I had promised her that the next year I wouldn't work as much. But then I got in trouble with the IRS, and I had to continue working just as much to pay the government. So she said I lied, which is something I never did.
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The biggest surprise for most people in dying is to realize that dying does not end life. Whether darkness or light comes next, or some kind of event, be it positive, negative, or somewhere in between, expected or unexpected, the biggest surprise of all is to realize you are still you.
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In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.
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If you're shooting to make the world 10% better, you're in a smartness contest with everyone else in the world - and you're going to lose. There are too many smart people in the world.
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The thing was always, as every story you write has a built-in problem, was: Was it too personal. That was the thing I wondered about for a long time. Oddly enough, it's often the personal stuff that people come up to you later and say about it, 'I can't believe you put that in a movie. That happened to me.' And sometimes, the thing that you make up happened to no one.
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The mistake people that want to be actors make is to move to New York or L.A. right away. But it's like... go act somewhere first. Be an actor. A story is a story, and an audience is an audience, no matter where you're doing it.
