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D. B. Sweeney Quotes

I'm not one of these million-dollar actors. I have always been just a working actor. I probably work more than I would like to.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: November 14, 1961

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Work Actor More Always Working Been

The most important lesson my parents taught me is that writing is a job, one that requires discipline and commitment. Most of the time it's a fun job, a wonderful job, but sometimes it isn't, and those are the days that test you.

Jesse Kellerman

Time Discipline Commitment Job Fun

People still call me the eternal amateur. After all, professionals are supposed to be able to conduct everything. But I can't unless I feel some connection inside. Conducting is not an end in itself for me.

People Me End Feel Connection Call

Either marriage is a destiny, I believe, or there is no sense in it at all, it's a piece of humbug.

Marriage Destiny Believe No Sense

Any man's death diminishes us, but when an artist passes away, we lose not just an island but an entire archipelago.

Death Man Artist Lose Island Us

Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

Play Write Critic Give Inch He

We want a culture where it is unacceptable not to share what you know.

John T. Chambers

Culture You Know Want Share Where

Poetry is all I write, whether for books or readings or for the National Theatre or for the opera house and concert hall or even for TV.

Poetry Theatre House Write Opera TV

My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.

Think Difficult First Opening Big

My mother was there every day of the production. You know what? My mother and I are so close, she really understands the fact that I am 18 and I am maturing. I guess I am not your average 18 year-old.

Michelle Trachtenberg

Mother Day I Am You Every Day Know

After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.

Life Work Fake Better You Hard

A great coder can easily be 50 times more productive than a mediocre one, while bad ones ultimately have negative productivity.

Great Negative Bad More Productivity

Character is the essence of all that a man has seen in life and regards as high and exalted. Character is like truth: the substance of the things that a man has forgotten but the substance of the things that are worth remembering in life.

Douglas Southall Freeman

Life Character Truth Man Worth High

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