Dwight Henry Quotes
I'm not the Hollywood type. I'm not going to pack up my bags and let me move to Hollywood and stuff like that.
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Some things are so tragic that you don't know what's funny in it, and some things are so ridiculous you don't know if it's worth talking about it.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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When the simple word processors came in, writing became crisper, less dense - just because of the way we could instantly edit on the screen. Now the ability to mash up words and pictures and links and songs and tweets is what matters. I can't imagine what writing will be like in 2154.
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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Ending wars is very simple if you surrender.
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I love the horror genre and the thriller genre, so I've got no problem with playing a psycho.
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Never take advice from anyone in a tie. They'll bankrupt you. Don't ask a general for advice on war, and don't ask a broker for advice on money.
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It was just one of those moments in the universe that was mine.
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I like to play a strong woman, but a strong woman can also be very fragile and vulnerable at the same time.
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Emancipation came to the colored race in America as a war measure. It was an act of military necessity. Manifestly it would have come without war, in the slower process of humanitarian reform and social enlightenment.
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I really want to play a superhero. I want to take the role-model thing up a notch. I've always been a fan of movies and TV, and to be able to play the ultimate TV superhero would be awesome.
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We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women - black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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You know rule one for the vice president is make sure you never upstage the president, right? It's rule one.
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With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious.
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Any personal crisis - you have to use it to get stronger.
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I talk to younger actor types, and they bring up that word, 'brand,' and it's like, 'All right, if that's the way you want to look at yourself.' Diet Pepsi's a brand; you're a human being.
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If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.
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I wasn't overwhelmed by dogma, and that sort of freed me up to look at things differently.
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The more refined and subtle our minds, the more vulnerable they are.
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There are plenty of things you can do to help animals! The best advice that I can give right off the bat is not to get overwhelmed and feel bad when you read about all the issues.
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You don't say "Maybe I should go to bed early tonight" or do any of that stuff. It's almost like you know you're alone and you have to get through it by whatever means - distracting yourself. Because, the more alone time the worse, you know?
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I'm not the Hollywood type. I'm not going to pack up my bags and let me move to Hollywood and stuff like that.
