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- Nov 07, 2020
Never Quotes
Quotes on what never happens.
This page gathers quotes centered on absence and limits - books that stayed unpublished, and a pointed line arguing that secrecy is fundamentally undesirable, merely tolerated when unavoidable. Related reading includes Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was prepping for my Broadway debut as Romeo, it really hit me that I had never done that. I had trained at drama school for three years in my late teens to early 20s, and I'd studied Shakespeare, of course, but I hadn't actually performed it. So to do something like Romeo for my first Broadway role was a challenge.
- Teaching
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never responded to teaching.
- Detailed
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- Nov 07, 2020
Graphic novels and comic books, by and large, as you know, have cover art, and they have interior art. The interior art is never as detailed as the cover art.
- Insane
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- Nov 07, 2020
With 'The Replacements,' it was insane. I'd never done a movie that opened up and made, like, seven million dollars. I'd never been part of, like, a four-day press junket for a movie that was international and domestic.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never had a relationship with a record executive. I always went to the record company by someone that liked my playing. Then they would get fired, and I'd be left with the record company. And then - because they got fired - the record company wouldn't do anything for me.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of my relationships have been like that - with record companies. I've never had a legitimate business relationship with a company. I've always had a personal relationship with someone in the company.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing that I've always been a little bit jealous of is a complete, a total giving to one form, like a genre, and just a mastery of it. My thing is very different. It's a complete embrace of something, but I've never been able to say, 'I believe in this.' The only thing I believe in is that I'm in this perpetual state of disbelief.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never totally sold on this idea that I'm just a musician. I wanted to be the Tim Burton of music.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have to go through auditions, and my surname has got me into rooms, but I'll never know if it gets me any jobs. There's a lot of sexism and objectification, and a lot of people put you down.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we say 'Black Lives Matter,' we're not saying that any other life doesn't matter. That has never, ever been our message. Our message has always been from a place of love.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some of us have held the hands of friends or brothers as they struggled with military and police academy recruiters, and though many of them never dreamed of being policemen, a lack of opportunities led them to those positions.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've never read a self help book... the most self-help I've read is on a beer mat.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
By trade, I am a software programmer, so I never really had any experience with movies before. I started out with 'Paranormal Activity.'
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never met a man more shy than Clark Gable. He was so shy, you couldn't make him talk.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020