Martin Delany Quotes
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My family loves to take me out, and we do regular things like go to the movies. My friends do that as well. At the same time, I love work and I want to be busy all the time!
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Bigotry tries to keep truth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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No one has a name in 'The Road.' Like Cormac McCarthy's novel from which it's adapted, 'The Road' features characters such as the man, the boy, the wife, the old man and the veteran.
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I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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Playing the priest on 'Oz' was a fantastic experience. I was very lucky.
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I suppose I am one of those lucky people who eats what they like and doesn't gain too much weight.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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I've met the Dalai Lama briefly, but I would probably say my grandfather was the wisest person I ever met. He was my mother's father, an Indian, a family doctor, and very unlike me in that he was deeply religious.
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I try to avoid experience if I can. Most experience is bad.
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Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light.
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I wanted to be a child actor so bad that every day I'd beg my parents if I could audition, but my mom said, 'Not until you can drive yourself to auditions.'
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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My favorite part of the whole filmmaking process is working with a fantastic cinematographer, a fantastic actor or actors, and then just creating emotions and stories. I get so excited by that. That's the part I'm utterly addicted to.
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Much as soldiers come back, they've been in combat or the edge of it and suddenly that adjustment back to civilian life is a real challenge.
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Rebellion per se is not a virtue. If it were, we would have some heroes on very low levels.
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Sometimes you meet people, and you somehow feel like you've known them your whole life.
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I would just like to say this about all the married people working together on the set: it was just a joy. That is the great joy to go to work with people that you love, whether they be people that you are in love with or people that you just love and be creative and artistic and make things that you want to send out into the world and make people feel good. It was a great environment to work in for me.
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Every people should be originators of their own destiny.
