"I felt a certain modicum of success because I had been paid well to be an actor for the first time in my life, but I felt like I had done adolescent work on the show, and stepping into the New York theater arena was the first time I felt like I'd come into my own. I felt like I was proving myself in a gladiatorial arena."

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Source : "Nashville's Chris Carmack on The O.C. and the rules of the death row meal". Interview with Marah Eakin, tv.avclub.com. September 22, 2015.

Chris Carmack

#New York Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Arena Quotes

“Panic: A highly underrated capacity thanks to which individuals are able to indicate clearly that something is wrong.... Given their head, most humans panic with great dignity and imagination. This can be called democratic expression or practical common sense.”

Source : John Ralston Saul (2002). “The Doubter's Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense”, p.228, Simon and Schuster
“General [James] Mattis has said that the deal's in place. We can't unilaterally pull out of it without support from our allies because the sanctions wouldn't bite as deeply. And so he'll find other ways to push back against Iran in the various conflicts that Iran is fomenting around the [Iran] region.”
“The game of keeping what one has is never so exciting as the game of getting.”
“A manager's ability to turn meetings into a thinking environment is probably an organization's greatest asset.”
“A person should have wings to carry them where their dreams go, but sometimes a pair of skis makes a good substitute.”
“I have discovered photography. Now I can kill myself. I have nothing else to learn.”
“Plans made swiftly and intuitively are likely to have flaws. Plans made carefully and comprehensively are sure to.”

Source : Robert Grudin (1997). “Time and the Art of Living”, p.102, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Reasonable, even intelligent people can, and frequently do, disagree on how best to achieve peace in the Middle East, but, peace must be the goal of our foreign policy tools, whether they be by the stick or by the carrot.”

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