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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I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.
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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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The idea of a news broadcast once was to find someone with information and broadcast it. The idea now is to find someone with ignorance and spread it around.
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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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There's so much that I can give as a human being - and I know that.
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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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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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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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Americans, perhaps more than most people, have pondered the question of who they are and what their country is.
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I just wanted laughs - that's really what I was after.
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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've worked so hard for years, and it's just incredible to see my clothes in Dorothy Perkins. I got quite emotional at the launch.
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And nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment.
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The local news does a story about it and everyone goes “Neat!” and then tomorrow we forget about it in favor of some other ABSOLUTELY PERFECT AND REMARKABLE THING.
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When I was growing up you would see big American films that really mythologised their landscape, that really showed the vastness and the drama of their country.
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Out of every 10 scripts I get sent, seven are fairly generic about an American guy who gets the girl and is involved in underground espionage activity.
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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.
