Bernie Mac Quotes
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I feel like we can learn from each other by us, being the young generation, giving knowledge to the older guys.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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When I travel, I just take what I need and I run. I always have my briefcase stuffed with work, even when I go on a holiday.
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I firmly believe that if your environment works for you and your family, it translates into a better life.
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My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.
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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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People think I'm trying to make a fashion statement because I never wear a bra. It's really that I'm a tomboy at heart.
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Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
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I have to do something with my mind, or I'll get in trouble.
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I danced with Jacques d'Amboise. At that time, he was the tallest man in the company. So it was a different kind of choreography. It was lyrical.
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I think selfishly, as an actor, we always want to do more.
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If you woke up each morning, and immediately dwelt on your ills, what sort of a day could you look forward to?
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Everything has changed. An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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I am a toxico-nutritional neuro-epidemiologist. It's the study of neurological disorders caused by a mixture of toxins and malnutrition using epidemiological methods... We are just three or four in the world, even fewer than sword swallowers.
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Whether life is worth living depends on whether there is love in life.
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In high school, I did some musicals, but I never took acting until college. I was studying opera, classical voice, and a speech teacher asked me to audition for this play, and I got the lead.
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Any experience can be transformed into something of value.
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Every role that you accept makes you grow in some way. It's part of the creative process.
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The history of the Victorian Age will never be written: we know too much about it. For ignorance is the first requisite of the historian – ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
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I've always had a very clear vision of what I wanted to do.
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You don't think. It's all instinct. If you stop to think, you're gone.
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I was a street performer for two years.
