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Will Rogers Quotes

Things ain't what they used to be and never were.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: November 4, 1879 - August 15, 1935

Topics

Never Things Used Were

Soap operas are like TV boot camp. You have to be able to self-direct, learn a ton of dialogue in a short amount of time, and deliver a performance in one or two takes.

Time Performance Short Learn You

It's wonderful when music is intellectually stimulating. But ultimately it has to be a visceral experience.

Music Experience Wonderful Visceral

Being an actor is a crazy way to spend one's life. It's the love of the game. Blind luck has a lot to do with it. Then you hope when you get your shot that you know what you're doing.

Jeffrey Dean Morgan

Life Love Hope Luck Crazy Game

In the late '80s and early '90s, there was a slightly retro drum sound that was popular in hip-hop music called the 808 bass drum sound. It was the bass drum sound on the 808 drum machine, and it's very deep and very resonant, and was used as the backbone as a lot of classic hip-hop tracks.

Music Deep Early Late Hip-Hop Sound

My parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left.

Freedom Sun Parents Rose Boston Up

You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

Michelangelo Antonioni

Space You Know Empty Standing Film

We need to fight violence and ignorance. It is true: when one strolls out, one sees women with scarves and men with beards. This has always been the case in Morocco. Morocco is built on tolerance.

Mohammed VI of Morocco

Women Ignorance Men Fight Tolerance

Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, I lived in the shadow of a tyrannical state.

Shadow Growing Up Growing Up Lived

You try and help something, and later on it bites you, so it's a hard decision, but as a country, as a nation, people need our help.

Decision People Help You Country

Free speech is not just another value. It's the foundation of Western civilization.

Jordan Peterson

Value Free Foundation Speech Just

Obviously, you're known for what you do. But you still want to be known as a good person. You're a person a lot longer before and after you're a professional athlete.

Good Good Person You Professional

I have always just made things. I don't see what I make as being defined by a medium or aesthetic. It probably comes more from a fundamental restlessness, an attempt to create tools for questioning or understanding, and I have always been interested in using a wide spectrum of mediums to do this.

Aesthetic Tools Understanding Create

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