Charley Pride Quotes
I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
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I'm so excited to be working on 'Doctor Who,' as it's such a big and important part of British culture.
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Where having been an actor was extremely helpful to me was in casting. That's where I think a director who has acted can really shine, and casting is the most important thing you do.
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I've been following what's happening in Colombia because it's the country of my childhood.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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If I could look like anyone, it would be Jamie Redknapp - even up close, he's amazing.
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'Encyclopedia Brown Takes the Case,' 'The Secret of the Old Clock,' 'Are You There God, It's Me, Margaret,' 'Flowers in the Attic,' 'Gone With the Wind' - these are the books that defined my childhood. They thrilled me. They made me feel like I wasn't alone in the world.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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As governor, I'm spending my time focused in three areas: creating jobs, reducing the expense of government and schools.
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I'm the Chris Martin of hip-hop.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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Growing up, you tended to just go through school to get out, then figure out what you want to do in this big ball of mud.
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I think that what I'd like to instil is that if you join the youth theatre, it's a gateway into greater career prospects.
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Working with Mellencamp, I made new fans, people that may have never heard of me. They may have heard I was related to the Carter Family or Johnny Cash somehow, but what they got was pure Carlene.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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I would love to work with the great movie actors of our time.
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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I learned that coming out was crucial to self-esteem.
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'Master Harold' is about me as a little boy, and my father, who was an alcoholic. There's a thread running down the Fugard line of alcoholism. Thankfully I haven't passed it on to my child, a wonderful daughter who's stone-cold sober. But I had the tendency from my father, just as he had had it from his father.
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I pay a lot of attention to the people I let surround me. I learn something from those people and from everyone - from other musicians, from people on the street.
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Success stems from the producer creating the optimal conditions for the filmmaker's own creative process. Not from steering the filmmaker through a one-size-fits-all approach.
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I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
