Bill Lawrence Quotes
The landscape is television has changed so much, because there are so many outlets, that the odds of getting a zeitgeisty hit - you know how 'American Idol' seems to appeal to every human being on the planet? Doing that in comedy nowadays is very, very hard.
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Not a lot of people get to go to the Olympics - especially with the chance I've got.
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Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.
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God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.
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There's a puppy store near where I live. They know me by name in there because I go so often.
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You don't want to put all your lead on the target. You want to leave some arrows in the quiver.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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It's far easier to forgive an enemy after you've got even with him.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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Give a talk to children and tell them dinosaurs didn't drag their tails, and you get arguments.
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My father didn't know his last name. My father got his last name from his grandfather, and his grandfather got it from his grandfather who got it from the slavemaster.
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I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
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Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.
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Until he announced his immigration policy last week, Obama had the support of most Hispanic voters - but not the enthusiasm they had shown for him in 2008. That may be changing in part because of the decision not to deport young immigrants whose undocumented parents brought them here as children.
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It's a sin to be tired.
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The great problem there is we have to have the cooperation of those other Asian countries.
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We've seen the power of the PC, and we've seen that it's unstoppable.
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I don't have any dream role. I give my 100% to every character I play, and when the film clicks, it automatically becomes a dream role.
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I knew I wanted to work in television because some friends of mine, when I went to high school - their fathers worked for, as a matter of fact, for NBC Sports at the time.
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The Cosby years were a major part of my life, but it is the past; I don't really concentrate on it.
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I've been very fortunate with my three spec scripts - which is sort of my thematic trilogy of the American Frontier. With 'Sicario', 'Hell or High Water' and then 'Wind River' - which is the third - there were no rewrites. It was the first draft for all three.
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For most of American history, of course, the important religious divides were between denominations - not just between Protestants and Catholics and Jews but between Lutherans and Episcopalians and Southern Baptists and the other endlessly fine-tuned sects.
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The landscape is television has changed so much, because there are so many outlets, that the odds of getting a zeitgeisty hit - you know how 'American Idol' seems to appeal to every human being on the planet? Doing that in comedy nowadays is very, very hard.
