Will Christian
Will Christian
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I grew up in Iowa, and the improv comedy club Comedy-Sportz across the river in Illinois held auditions. They took me even though I was only 16 - you really had to be 18, but they never checked me for ID.
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I was at Pepperdine University in Malibu, and during my sophomore year, I played a dying burn victim on 'ER.' The makeup artist put burn makeup all over my body and I couldn't move or eat for 12 hours. I lost 8 pounds that week.
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I played 15 years of hockey, and I got more injured doing two weeks of cheer camp.
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You pursue what you love, and if you find beauty or truth, you go with that.
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When I was in the gunner's bubble of a B25 bomber, taking off from an aircraft carrier 100 miles off the coast of San Diego, I remember saying to myself how amazing it was to get the chance to do that.
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They are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their own powers.
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It is our relation to circumstances that determines their influence upon us.
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Next to faith in God, is faith in labor.
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A pleasant illusion is better than a harsh reality.
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Something of a person's character may be observed by how they smile. Some never smile they only grin.
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It is characteristic that this should take place just when it is becoming more and more clear to all who think about the matter, that technically and economically we have left the territorial state behind us.
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Kindness is a language the dumb can speak and the deaf can hear and understand.
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Discretion is the salt, and fancy the sugar of life; the one preserves, the other sweetens it.
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Qualities not regulated run into their opposites. Economy before competence is meanness after it. Therefore economy is for the poor; the rich may dispense with it.