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- Nov 07, 2020
Able Quotes
On capability, readiness and what makes action possible.
These quotes touch on being able to act: governments expected to give straight answers, leaders imagined thinking more imaginatively, and allies working to restore the unity needed to act together. For more, see our Being quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think every singer should be able to jump in for a singer who has been sick, for instance, and learn an opera in two days. I know people who can do it.
- Nov 07, 2020
To be an animator you have to be able to tell stories but I'm not very verbal - I definitely do it through pictures.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
I couldn't enjoy 'A Dance With Dragons,' unfortunately. Of course, I enjoyed it, but it was the first of the books I read as a writer on 'Game of Thrones,' so all I could do is think, 'We're going to have to shift that,' 'We won't be able to afford that,' or 'That's a great scene.'
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always tell clients you have to be able to remember why you chose to do a movie: to always be able to look at a movie and know, whether it's good or bad, why you chose to do it.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'd been able to put the collection together in one go, say over two years, we'd have had a special team, most wouldn't stay. One or two glory seasons and they were off. To them, the north-east was too far out. They wanted to be with the big hitters.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have been a sports fan my whole life. To be able to talk about sports in an intelligent, journalistic fashion and to do things of a serious nature is a dream job.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I'm in a room with 100 people, will I be able to find one person I'd like to have dinner with? Probably not.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't always want to act. My passion was writing, and it still is one of my primary passions to this day, but it wasn't until high school when I started acting in plays that it became a thought of something I might want to do. And when I applied to colleges, at NYU, I was able to study both writing and acting.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love that I can talk to my fans through Twitter, to cut out the middle man. Because I've done interviews where my words have gotten twisted, so it's nice to be able to have things coming straight from me.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I've never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
I need to be able to rock out.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you live in a place, you're not just taking from it, you're contributing to it. In America I would never be able to make myself a person who could contribute. I wasn't interested in that society; I was interested in this society.
- Daily
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just being able to get paid to do something you love is a wonderful thing. That said, a writer's daily routine, unless you're Dominick Dunne, isn't exactly glamorous. Much of it amounts to drudgery, staring at a computer screen all day in a room by yourself, juggling nouns and verbs to make a demanding editor happy.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
The media bring our wars home, but only rarely have they been able to do it in complete freedom.
- Football
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- Nov 07, 2020