BJ the Chicago Kid Quotes
Success for me is being comfortable, and not in terms of a certain level of financial status, but that comfort comes from within.
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I used to sing in jazz clubs with a friend until she went another way.
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I have run two Olympic 'A' standard times over the past 12 months and with the time I ran at the African Championships last week I know my speed and fitness are constantly improving so that I will peak in time for the Olympics.
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Romantic comedies are particularly hard to make.
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What we know for sure from our work and from others' is that mice have a life span of 1,000 days, dogs have 5,000 days, and we humans have 29,000 days. Recognizing that the duration is limited, and aging is inevitable, focus the attention on enhancing the quality of the days you have.
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My job is to train hard, go fight, and do my best.
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The training of younger generations is very close to my heart.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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I think for me, or for anyone who plays the quarterback position, it's almost an unspoken word when you think about leadership. Some guys can be a leader and be a running back or a lineman, or wide receiver, strong safety, or linebacker. But when you speak of quarterbacks, it's automatically a default that you're supposed to be a leader.
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You're in the lap of the gods. If people go, they go, and if they don't.
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With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
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In this new age of GPS, Google Earth and multidimensional digital maps, mapping is suddenly hugely relevant again.
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I love art so much because of curiosity. At the start of a painting, I know 10 percent of what the painting will be, and then I have to improvise the whole thing.
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I've seen the greatest actors in the world, transcendent talents, who can't find a home.
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Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.
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I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
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There is but one honest limit to the rights of a sentient being; it is where they touch the rights of another sentient being.
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I've found out how overwhelming the media is and the way it drills things into your head, it's almost like a mind control. If I could control prople's minds, I'd like to put something useful in.
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You know what's funny? There's times when you catch a ball and really didn't even see that ball. You're like, 'That couldn't have been all me.'
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Any director who comes into a revival owes a great deal to the original director. If I know the backbone works, it gives me, as a director, much more freedom to bring something new to it or try something different.
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The main thing I hope people see is how passionate I am about my work, and I know people talk about it, but I do work really hard on my stuff, and it means a lot to me.
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It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun.
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Success for me is being comfortable, and not in terms of a certain level of financial status, but that comfort comes from within.
