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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My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.
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People may be prepared to buy services from Apple and Amazon if they feel these companies do a good job, but we need to ensure that we can speak up when our content is used by other people for their profit. An activist amateur culture will constantly challenge and say, 'This is mine, you're not doing that with it.'
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I always believe that ultimately, if people are paying attention, then we get good government and good leadership. And when we get lazy, as a democracy and civically start taking shortcuts, then it results in bad government and politics.
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It's marvellous to be popular, but foolish to think it will last.
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I was always a dreamer, in childhood especially. People thought I was a little strange.
