Bernie Mac Quotes
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You want to put out a TV show? If you have the money to do it on your own, by yourself, and you have a TV network, you can do it by yourself. But the nature of the beast is, art needs finance. That's how this industry works. So until the Internet becomes our source of entertainment - and watch it, I believe it will - this is how things go.
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Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.
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It's funny, I don't know where I would place myself in the literary landscape. I really just write the book that I would want to read. I put on the blinders, and I really - it is, for me, that simple.
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I've always had a dream of owning a restaurant.
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One is forever throwing away substance for shadows.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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The writer can choose what he writes about but he cannot choose what he is able to make live.
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I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
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My interviewing style and my approach to things is that, yes, it's okay to be sincere; it's okay to be yourself; it's okay to be real.
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It's such a hard thing to write a song for your fans without sounding naff and thanking them for spending money on you.
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I enjoy roles that are quite physical.
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Honestly, I think we should be delighted people still want to read, be it on a Kindle or a Nook or whatever the latest device is.
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A lot of people... kind of make heroes that are separate from us, people who are, you know, like... John Wayne and Errol Flynn and, you know, Denzel Washington... people who are different, who are larger than life.
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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
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Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.
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I think whenever you love something or somebody it means that you have to extend yourself, you have to grow - get a little larger. You can't stay in your little comfortable - spot.
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For me, the human face is the most important subject of the cinema.
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I always look forward, not back.
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I've liked all the directors I've worked with a lot. And the ones I like best are the ones that have really good taste about what take was best.
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Every time I have visited the U.S., I have been asked to let loose my hair and remove the hair pins. Each time, I have put up a defiant face.
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In some ways I've lived my life like a man, made my own decisions, etc. I've been as terrified as the next person, but you've got to keep going.
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God specializes in impossible situations.
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When you lose someone you love, they never really leave you. They just move into a special place in your heart.
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The two sides of Bernie - that's a quiet weapon that I have.
