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William Sanderson Quotes

The best came from my martial arts teacher, who also taught Elvis. He said, 'Your ego will get you killed.'

William Sanderson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: January 10, 1948

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Teacher Best Ego You Said Will

While I do not suggest that humanity will ever be able to dispense with its martyrs, I cannot avoid the suspicion that with a little more thought and a little less belief their number may be substantially reduced.

John B. S. Haldane

Thought Humanity Will Belief More

I don't want to put words in Geithner's mouth, but I think he is generally against the revolving door of government officials taking jobs with companies that they have overseen or in roles that involve lobbying. At minimum, I'm pretty sure he felt that way about himself.

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Words Government Door Think Mouth

I once read that there are more biographical works about Napoleon Bonaparte than any other man in history.

History Man More Read Than Once

We're going to do a natural birth. At first she was like, 'We should do it at home,' and I said, 'Look, either way, when you go into labor, I will be checking into a hospital... so if you want to come along, come along.

Home You Look Labor Said Want

I would absolutely be interested in doing a Broadway production if it was the right project. But my dream is to be writing pieces of theater for my best friends and putting on plays in New York City and seeing our vision come alive. I just hope to always be creating.

Hope Vision Best New York City

Communication is a continual balancing act, juggling the conflicting needs for intimacy and independence. To survive in the world, we have to act in concert with others, but to survive as ourselves, rather than simply as cogs in a wheel, we have to act alone.

Communication Alone World Survive

Just be yourself, and enjoy the blessings that God's borne out on you.

God Yourself Be Yourself Blessings

I was born in Boston, but then I went down to Virginia. We spent a little time in Maryland, and then were in Virginia by the time I was seven. What struck me the most was that my mother thought that she had gone to the middle of nowhere, and we would still drive four hours for her to get her hair cut in Washington, D.C.

Mother Time Me Hair Drive Thought

I've had some interesting roles along the way, but they tend to be cause-driven. They're always about something. There isn't time for character work as an actor because you're fighting the cause or mourning the child or fighting the disease, etc.

Work Character Time Child Fighting

India has an enormous amount of AIDS awareness.

India Awareness AIDS Amount Enormous

So long as classical education and classical prejudices prevailed, educated Englishmen inevitably saw ancient Britain as an alien land.

Education Long Alien Land Educated

I look up and go, 'I'm living in the world I visualized a long time ago.' From making movies, to the Film Society, to just being in a film world. It's a life that I wanted to inhabit. I think everyone has the opportunity to do that in this world - it's just, are you gonna work for it, and how much does it mean to you?

Richard Linklater

Life Work Opportunity Time World

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