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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In theory, I work an eight-hour day and a five-day week which means I can socialise with my pals who mostly have normal jobs like teaching and computer programming.
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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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A diplomat these days is nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.
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I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.
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I have been aware, from the age of 6, that I had talent.
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Now, a fancy ball is bad enough in London, where milliners are many, and where theatres have costumes that may be borrowed or copied ; but in the country, where people are left to their own devices-truly to them may be applied the old poet's account of murderers, 'their fancies are all frightful.'
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Sometimes, people will fight over five, six percent, because if it's a smash record, that can mean a lot of money. I don't really care.
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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.
