Tony Shalhoub Quotes

#1. You know, we have two families: the one we're born into, and the one that we make for ourselves afterwards.

Valerie Simpson

#2. Things change so fast, you can't use 1971 ethics on someone born in 1971.

Grace Slick

#3. You're not really necessarily the coolest guy in their life. You are a conduit to the really cool people.

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#4. My only preference is to have a lot of variety and diversity in the material that I work on.

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#5. I was one of those people who put too much emphasis on work and career and material possessions, and it took its toll on all my relationships, on my physical health, my emotional and mental health.

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#6. It was really an experience, being my first time directing a movie. The scenes that I was in, Brooke really directed me all the time. And the scenes that both of us were in, Brooke directed those. Come to think of it, Brooke directed most of the scenes.

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#7. I'm impossible to direct. I couldn't get myself to do anything.

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#8. Dierdre the counselor must not have had much of a life, because she scheduled our next appointment on a Sunday. I wasn't so thrilled about it, seeing as it wasn't just my day off-it was also the day my friends had off. Orders were orders, however, so I grudgingly showed up.

Richelle Mead

#9. I try not to make any boundaries. I try to let all art influence me.

Joseph Trapanese

#10. To my fellow nominees, whoever they are - I'm not that familiar with their work - I just want to say, there's always next year - except, you know, for Ray Romano .

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#11. My knowledge and thirst for knowledge has no expiration date ... It goes until I'm dead. I will be learning and studying from youth, as well as people older than me ... Having degrees as a person of color in this country is the one thing that can't nobody take away from me.

Ruben Santiago-Hudson

#12. All I wanted with that film was to represent the possibility that there might be normal people who are Muslim or Arab with the same fears, responsibilities, hopes.

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#13. With what's happened in the world the last three years, it's easier to see why it's become popular again to diminish and revile Arabs and Muslims in American popular culture.

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#14. I still think of myself as a stage actor. When I do film and television I try to implement what I was taught to do in theatre, to try to stretch into characters that are far from myself.

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#15. Stop giving your gift to those who want to use you for the development of their legacy, at the cost of yours.

Steve Harvey

#16. I am living proof that uncertainty is vastly underrated and often times a blessing in disguise.

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#17. Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.

N. T. Wright

#18. This business can be very frustrating but there is success story after success story of people who take the bull by the horns. Actors who are frustrated ... [should] do your own project. Find a writer, shoot a movie. It can be done,

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#19. The three most important words in a relationship are not, 'I love you,' but, 'Tell me more.

Stefan Molyneux

#20. Liberty is a slow fruit.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#21. I don't look as handsome in Men in Black 2 as I did in the first one.

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#22. I've been so fortunate throughout my career, when I was doing theater, more theater than anything else, and when I was doing films that I got a chance just to do a broad range of things.

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#23. I come from a really big family, my father was a businessman and what he always instilled in us was to be your own boss. My father built up his business, and he was by no means a rich man, but he figured out how to work four-and-a-half days a week.

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#24. The gulf coast, we all know now, after Katrina, is responsible for 25 percent of U.S. production of natural gas. Following Katrina and Rita, almost 75 percent of the natural gas production in the gulf was shut down and not producing.

Mark Foley

#25. And Big Night, I think by the end the brothers find that balance, when they touch each other on the shoulder over breakfast and it's understood that what should never have driven them apart almost drove them apart. I think that's a true moment.

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#26. I shot Barton Fink in July and moved out to LA that fall. The movie came out in the spring and it was a year before I got Wings.

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#27. If there are no things which are important, then things are assigned importance arbitrarily and defended at great risk. Because the risk validates the importance.

Robert B. Parker