"I'm so busy trying to be other people. You start acting just as soon as you walk into the door of that casting office. You can't just be yourself because they don't want to hire you"

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Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Clifton Collins, Jr.

#Being Yourself Quotes #Doors Quotes #People Quotes

“I'd like to be a piano player.”
“If you want to stand out, find a way to be either high fidelity or high convenience in whatever you do. If you're halfway in between on both measures, you're not going to make people feel very excited about you.”
“Honestly, because of the way women were treated, I wouldn't want to go back to Puritan times.”

Source : "Janet Montgomery Talks SALEM, How Much Fun She Has with Her Role, Why the Witch Trials Are Still Fascinating, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 15, 2014.
“Dull, inert cities, it is true, do contain the seeds of their own destruction and little else. But lively, diverse, intense cities contain the seeds of their own regeneration, with energy enough to carry over for problems and needs outside themselves.”

Source : Jane Jacobs (2016). “The Death and Life of Great American Cities”, p.343, Random House
“There are few things it is more important to learn than how to live on little and be therewith content: for the less we need what is without, the more leisure have we to live within.”
“I dated all these girls and ended up not liking them and thought to myself, 'What was it that all of them had in common?' They had too much time on their hands. Even though they were pretty, they lacked something. A woman could be less attractive but with ambition and drive, that's the most beautiful thing.”

Source : "Get to Know Rapper Wale". Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. June 10, 2010.
“I always tell people that I have never ever gone dancing in my life. But that's the point. It's the point of dreaming of doing it, imagining doing it. My music is like a fantasy version of it, not a practical version of it. With the way a club DJ would make a track - they are in the club, they know how to get people excited. I don't know how to get people excited. I'm just imagining euphoria; I'm not necessarily feeling it.”
“I don't like tracking and over dubbing and all that. I love live recording where everybody is playing. I, I'm convinced it's better.”

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