Bernard Hopkins Quotes
I'm not downplaying my age - because humankind is such that people run away from their age. Especially women. Guys pretend not to care, but they do. Age is not a good thing to most human beings. But, being an alien, I embrace it.
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I really think that in the media world that we live in now, especially for writers, it has to be a conversation. With very few exceptions, it can't be this one-way, 'Here I am on the mountaintop preaching to all of you great unwashed readers in hopes of saving you.' It doesn't work that way.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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If there were a major earthquake in Los Angeles, with bridges and highways and railroads and airports all shut down and huge buildings collapsing, I don't care how much planning you do, the first 72 hours is going to be chaotic.
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How can it be said we should use only constitutional means in our struggle, when all resistance is illegal and we have no way to change the brutal realities of the racism regime?
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I love my boys very much. I want only the best for them and am committed to being a devoted father.
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Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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We always had money problems. Sometimes I would lie awake at night wondering how to pay the rent.
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I see couples fighting about the stupidest things. You just have to rise above everything.
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I make big objects that are simple, bright and clear, kind of ironic but hopefully funny because I love the shapes, and I get inspiration from toys and books, and I believe in art for everyone.
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You remember Donnie Brasco? It's the most notorious undercover movie ever; it's so street and so real. If you ever imagined yourself doing cop work, you imagined yourself getting pushed to that limit - seeing the furthest you can push yourself while still upholding the law.
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Rock music is being systematically merged with fashion.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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If I think about the writers I love or might be influenced by, I can't write at all, so I pretend there aren't any.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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I just kind of like to feel myself into stuff by writing scenes and seeing what characters end up saying.
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I went to a Catholic school but did not really fit in.
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Among all the tests President Obama faced in his first term, his biggest failure was climate change.
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All fashion brands are about looking good. Being Human is also about doing good. And you can do good by the simple act of slipping into a t-shirt or a pair of jeans.
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I'm usually nervous to meet people that I admire because what if they're not cool or something?
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I'm not downplaying my age - because humankind is such that people run away from their age. Especially women. Guys pretend not to care, but they do. Age is not a good thing to most human beings. But, being an alien, I embrace it.
