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I'm not an aspiring young actor; I'm a storyteller who made it late in life, and I'm therefore an inspiration to everyone who thinks that, at 23, if you're not in the Backstreet Boys, then you're never gonna make it.

Actor Aspiring Boy Everyone
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There are quite a few actors in the business who are much more difficult than kids or monkeys.

Actor Business Difficult Few
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Theater is the most enriching and thrilling thing to do as an actor.
Actor Enriching Most Theater
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I'm sure that my wanting to be an actor had to do with a need for approval.

Actor Approval Had Need
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Whatever I'm working on, the character I'm playing tends to slowly bleed into my own real life. Not in any kind of creepy, Method actor-y kind of way - it's just an innate kind of merging.

Any Bleed Character Creepy
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I don't have an agenda where I do a comedy and say, 'I have to do a drama next,' or 'I am looking for an action movie now.'

Action Agenda Am Comedy
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I am passionate about the power of stories, well-told, to persuade, provoke and mediate human experiences. Stories sustain cultures and inspire change. Stories impact governance, development, business, commerce, education, technology and innovation.

Passionate Power Stories Provoke
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A lot of people say, 'What's the worst part about being an actor?' And the worst part is that you're not a musician.

About Actor Being Lot
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I don't base any character on a real person, and really don't do composites either. I make them up.

Any Base Character Either
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All I really wanted to be was a working actor.

Actor Really Wanted Working
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If I have any merit, it is getting along with individuals, according to their ways and characteristics. At times it involves suppressing yourself. It is painful, but necessary. To be a leader you have got to lead human beings with affection.

Leader Affection Painful Individual
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If you want excellence, you must aim at perfection. It makes you go into detail that you can avoid. It takes a lot of energy out of you but that's the only way you finally actually achieve excellence. So in that sense, being finicky is essential.

Perfection Excellence Aim Drawbacks
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I feel my characters are valid, my characters are people, my characters have hope. Hope is the thing that'll take us through.

Characters People Having Hope Feels
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All human beings have the capability of doing what they want, what they're attracted to.
Capability Humans Want Human
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A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.

A Character Contrived Like
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I feel that my characters all have some part of my character. I feel that they're all me in some way, certainly not in individuality, but they all bear elements of what I feel.

Feel Characters All Some Part
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Faith consists in being vitally concerned with that ultimate reality to which I give the symbolical name of God. Whoever reflects earnestly on the meaning of life is on the verge of an act of faith.

Act Being Concerned Consists
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Faith is an act of a finite being who is grasped by, and turned to, the infinite.

Act Being Faith Finite
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Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information.
Acts Consists Education Information
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Beauty is also submitted to the taste of time, so a beautiful woman from the Belle Epoch is not exactly the perfect beauty of today, so beauty is something that changes with time.

Also Beautiful Beautiful Woman Beauty
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.

Exactly Exactly The Same Had Now
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I'm not British. I'm not American. I'm not French. Whatever thing they practise, that is their business. I am an African. I am Rwandese.

African Am American British
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I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.

Adapting Been Character Has-Been
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Actually, I find it great fun to develop family series with lots of characters.

Actually Characters Develop Family
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The most important aspect of any story, to me, is character.

Any Aspect Character Important
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Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

Eternity Fraction Hardly Life
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Can I just say, I’ve learned that there’s never a perfect time. Just get up, BEGIN and COMMIT. When you BEGIN, it all becomes clearer and life’s map will lead you exactly where your resources, manpower and networks are.

Never Perfect time Begin Commit
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The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Character Difficulty Fall Live
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When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

Bear Begin Broken Homes
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When you have the right opportunity, you have to leverage them. So it’s not always about how do you use your platform to further yourself? It’s about how do you use it to activate and push forward other people?

Right opportunity Leverage them
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Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.

Acts Been End God
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I enjoy watching the karate practitioners because of their high spiritual level.

Because Enjoy High Karate
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Road to greatness is never smooth. Path to success is always rough. The journey isn’t always attractive but refusal to embark on it amounts to failure.
Road Greatness Never smooth Success
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You don’t have to be rich to make an impact. In a gentle way, you can shake your world.
Have to Rich Impact Shake
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As we become so visible in the digital world and leave an endless trail of data behind us, exactly who has our data and what they do with it becomes increasingly important.

Become Becomes Behind Data
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As far as skincare goes, I'm from the school of 'you are what you eat.' I always promote a vegan lifestyle, not just because it's great for our environment and for humanity, but because if you cut out dairy, for example, there's scientific proof that it can actually help your complexion.

Actually Always As Far As Because
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I feel like most people know that I'm a vegan, and I'm a pretty vocal animal activist. Everything and anything I do, I just kind of use it as a vehicle to be able to send out the message.

Able Activist Animal Anything
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I've always viewed makeup as the gateway drug to animal activism. It really doesn't require any sacrificing or changing anything other than just replacing products that were once used to torture animals with ones that perform just as well and are cruelty-free.

Activism Always Animal Animals
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Interaction with fans is super important to me. I have the best fans ever. They're always the most creatively charged people. I've saved every single piece of fan mail that I've ever gotten. We have an archive of it and stuff. I think if I can inspire that, then it's like my job is done.

Always Best Charged Creatively
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Electrical science has revealed to us the true nature of light, has provided us with innumerable appliances and instruments of precision, and has thereby vastly added to the exactness of our knowledge.

Added Appliances Electrical Instruments
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What the Who is all about is exactly that and it always has been. If it exists today for this concert, it's in response again to a function which is happening out there on the street.

About Again Always Been
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I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.

Great deal Importance Papers
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God writes a lot of comedy... the trouble is, he's stuck with so many bad actors who don't know how to play funny.

God Write Comedy Bad actors
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.

Politics Act One
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All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Because Certain Characters Directly
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All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

Combine Following Hope Interests
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May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

Actions Become Law Life
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Classics are books which, the more we think we know them through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we actually read them.

Actually Books Classics Find
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In 'Cosmicomics,' I came close to science fiction - I was inspired by cosmological subjects and the workings of the universe and invented a character who was a sort of witness to everything that was happening inside the solar system.

Came Character Close Everything
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I myself eschew all stimulants. I also practically abstain from meat.

Abstain Also Meat Myself
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