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If you are a musician and you don't show any interest on the business level then you are actually vulnerable and people will rip you off. They will sweet talk you into anything.
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Pretending to be other people helped bring me out of my shell and shed my inhibitions.
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Violent drama has been a hallmark of every great civilization. It is not the cause of the disease - it is an immunizing factor. People go to the theater to experience emotions like fear and loathing. Violent drama shows us where we come from. It makes us face our hypocrisy.
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Film is something that came later into my life. I had a Jesuit education, and I consider acting and the theater as kind of a calling - a vocation.
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We get more reaction to this list than anything else we do.
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The point is to stop it (illegal immigration), and if we have to do it ourselves, we're going to do everything we can to stop it.
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The point I've always made is that I'm writing for a general audience, rather than just for an audience of academics or fellow historians.
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The people who came in told us such amazing stories of their personal journeys, how they got to Madison, that we just threw out the scripts. What these people are talking about in their native tongues are their own personal experiences.
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The perception is it's environmentalist versus environmentalist, ... But it's environmentalists versus the power cartel.
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The performance in global clearing was the only real negative we can point to this quarter as balance growth has clearly slowed here. But we also suspect that continued pressure on commission rates played a role here as well.
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The person I'd feel sorry for would be the first man, ... I'm not sure Bill could handle that.
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The Postal Service really isn't in a building mode anymore, and that's throughout the whole country.
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The post-Labor Day rally, I wasn't sold on. The fact that we didn't really crash over summer, I thought was a terrific blessing. I think sentiment is going to drive the market from here. The numbers are there, the numbers have not changed. The economy has not changed, it is still good, slowing down a little bit. We've got a nice stable platform. Earnings for second quarter were fabulous. They ought to be pretty good, I think, coming in here to the third quarter.
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The potential of the hybrid capital market is enormous. As issuers and investors become more comfortable with these securities, they could become one of the biggest corporate funding innovations since high yield bonds.