"I owe my whole acting career to the fact that I'm a singer. I went out to Los Angeles and auditioned for a TV show called 'Fame L.A.' The original role was for a comedian, but they said I wasn't very funny, so they asked me, 'What else can you do?' So I played a singer."

-- Christian Kane

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“We love the Stooges, and young kids today don't watch them. They think it's their dad's comedy. So we thought we could reintroduce them to a new audience.”
“We spend most of our lives trying to unlearn much of what we've been taught.”
“When I'm training a dog, I develop a relationship with that dog. He's my buddy, and I want to make training fun.”
“As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.”
“Actually, I have a lot of hobbies, but I've kept up with model-building the longest. In particular, I love military models.”
“In the deep jungles of Africa, a traveler was making a long trek. Coolies had been engaged from a tribe to carry the loads. The first day they marched rapidly and went far. The traveler had high hopes of a speedy journey. But the second morning these jungle tribesmen refused to move. For some strange reason they just sat and rested. On inquiry as to the reason for this strange behavior, the traveler was informed that they had gone too fast the first day, and that they were now waiting for their souls to catch up with their bodies.”
“We would rather be anywhere, as long as we are somewhere. We would rather be anyone, as long as we are someone.”
“My father had retained an emotional affection for the ceremonial of his parental home, without allowing it to influence his intellectual freedom”

Source : Franz Boas (1989). “A Franz Boas Reader: The Shaping of American Anthropology, 1883-1911”, p.41, University of Chicago Press

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