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My whole thing is I just always wanted to be a working actor and I just wanted to stop waiting tables.

Actor Always Just Stop
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I got the chance to do things that I dreamed of when I was a kid: I got to travel around the world; I had my own 'Goosebumps' attraction at Disney World; I've been on TV and had three TV series.

Around Attraction Been Chance
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The founder of the Mona Foundation actually knew my dad for years, and the more I learned about it, the more I realized I really found the perfect charity. It sponsors schools and educational initiatives all over the planet.

About Actually Charity Dad
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I set a goal for myself everyday when I write - 10 pages a day - and it's much harder because I'm too dumb to turn off my Twitter and everything so it's always on and it's a real distraction. It's a major distraction.

Always Because Day Distraction
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Some of the biggest movie stars in the world are essentially characters.

Biggest Characters Essentially Movie
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There is no legitimate actor who can resist the powerful lure of the movies. It isn't the money that fetches him. It isn't the great publicity. It is simply this: the movies enable an actor to look at himself.

Legitimate actor Powerful Movies
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Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.
Actions Cannot Care Forming
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Every action is either strong or weak, and when every action is strong we are successful.
Action Either Every Strong
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A life of reaction is a life of slavery, intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action, not reaction.

Action Fight Intellectually Life
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Men reach their sexual peak at eighteen. Women reach theirs at thirty-five. Do you get the feeling that God is playing a practical joke?

Eighteen Feeling Get God
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To attract men, I wear a perfume called 'New Car Interior.'

Attract Car Interior Men
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Nowhere else in history has there ever been a flag that stands for the right to burn itself. This is the fractal of our flag. It stands for the right to destroy itself.

Been Burn Destroy Else
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To hell with facts! We need stories!
Facts Hell Need Stories
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I usually hang out on the set. I get to know everybody. I have a nice time with the other actors.

Actor Everybody Get Hang
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If they're willing to pay you what you think you're worth for it, that's why an actor goes to work. A lot of times they want to pay you a lot for a picture you don't want to do.

Actor Goes Lot Pay
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I don't really look for specific types of projects any more. I'm not taking care of a career anymore. I'm just having fun acting.

Acting Any Anymore Care
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I wasn't really serious about acting - I was serious about baseball.

About Acting Baseball Really
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Acting was something that just came along. But I made good money, so it wasn't something I was just going to put aside and pretend it didn't exist.

Acting Along Aside Came
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If you cannot impact people’s lives, you are not successful.

Cannot impact People's lives Successful
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I'm going to stay active as long as I can politically, and with the Carter Center primarily, and if I'm able mentally and physically, will continue to be quite active.

Able Active Carter Center
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I think an overwhelming portion of the intensely demonstrated animosity toward President Barack Obama is based on the fact that he is a black man, that he's African American.

African African American American Animosity
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My paintings have gotten to be pretty popular and I've taken a little bit more interest in painting the last few years. In fact, my novel that I wrote not too long ago, 'The Hornet's Nest,' I painted the cover picture for it and I do a good bit of painting now.

Bit Cover Fact Few
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I don't think the Tea Party people are racist, except maybe a tiny portion of them. But there has been a deliberate effort - again, referring to Fox Broadcasting - to inject the race issue into it. They have actually called Obama a racist on television.

Actually Again Been Broadcasting
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I don't think you can ever assess your work. I don't think Turgenev could assess his any more than I can assess mine, and his didn't have a social impact as much as great literary impact.

Any Assess Could Ever
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If the worst thing that can happen is that nobody laughs, then I can deal with that, because the worst thing that can happen at the factory is that I could lose a limb or be crushed by a huge machine.

Worst thing Nobody laughs Deal Factory
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The story being told in 'Star Wars' is a classic one. Every few hundred years, the story is retold because we have a tendency to do the same things over and over again. Power corrupts, and when you're in charge, you start doing things that you think are right, but they're actually not.

Story Star wars Classic one Retold
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Part of the issue of achievement is to be able to set realistic goals, but that's one of the hardest things to do because you don't always know exactly where you're going, and you shouldn't.

Issue Achievement Set Realistic goals
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A lot of people like to do certain things, but they're not that good at it. Keep going through the things that you like to do, until you find something that you actually seem to be extremely good at. It can be anything.

People Certain things Keep going Good
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I am a giant proponent of giant screens. But I accept the fact that most of my movies are going to be seen on phones.

Giant proponent Movies Seen Phones
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There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

Movies People Diversion World
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.

Acted Behold Dreamt Joy
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Every instance of obedience, from right motives, strengthens us spiritually, whilst every act of disobedience weakens us.

Every instance Right motives Strengthens us
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The vigor of our spiritual life will be in exact proportion to the place held by the Bible in our life and thoughts.

Vigor Our spiritual life Bible Thought
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You can bind my body, tie my hands, govern my actions: you are the strongest, and society adds to your power; but with my will, sir, you can do nothing.

My body Hands Actions Strongest
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The most honest of men is the one who thinks and acts best, but the most powerful is the one who writes and speaks best.

Most honest Men Best Powerful
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My burning desire is to lead my generation into the very act of worship, worshiping the Lord in spirit and in truth.

Burning desire Generation Worship Lord
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The time you spend grieving over a man should never exceed the amount of time you actually spent with him.

Actually Amount Exceed Grieving
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Some people think having large breasts makes a woman stupid. Actually, it's quite the opposite: a woman having large breasts makes men stupid.

Actually Breasts Having Large
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I'm a practical person. I'm not too bad a carpenter. I can renovate houses.

Bad Carpenter Houses I Can
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My Vegas act is how I make my money.

Act How Make Money
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Being a dancer and a singer gave me some advantage with regards to having a stage presence. I always take my timing from the audience because they are half of my act.

Act Advantage Always Audience
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At first, I didn't realize it was gonna be a character. I just thought I was gonna be doing me.

Character Doing First Gonna
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I just practice. I do six hours of practice everyday. I set to teach myself the trumpet they all said I would never play. I put the organ in my music, like if you listen to my work Day By Day, which got me my second Grammy nomination.

Practice Teach Trumpet Play
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Happily, there’s a reversal of the brain drain occurring in Ghana now. We’re seeing a lot of – actually in Africa – we’re seeing a lot of African professionals, you know, returning to the continent to contribute their quota.

Happily Brain Africa Ghana
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Actually I walk around with the Emmy wherever I go, but I'm very casual about it.

About Actually Around Casual
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I hate women, hate them generally, not in particular but in an abstract way. I hate them because one never really learns anything about them. They are inscrutable.

Hate women Abstract way Never learns
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In my opinion, there are two things that can absolutely not be carried to the screen: the realistic presentation of the sexual act and praying to God.

Opinion Two things Realistic Sexual act
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Looking at yourself in a mirror isn't exactly a study of life.

Exactly Life Looking Mirror
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I'm not a sedentary person. I've always been active.

Active Always Been Person
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I used to tremble from nerves so badly that the only way I could hold my head steady was to lower my chin practically to my chest and look up at Bogie. That was the beginning of The Look.

Badly Beginning Chest Chin
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