Malcolm X Quotes
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There's something about a divorce in that even if your parents still love you, the fact that they can't live with each other makes you feel there's something wrong with you.
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At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.
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If one line about the film excites me, I try to take it forward.
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Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.
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I never feel insecure when there are two female leads.
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There are no rebels in the cinema business.
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The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
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When I think about making 'Within,' it was not a very fun experience at all.
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Both my parents are Scottish, and although I grew up in Canada after moving over, all of my family are proud to be Scots.
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Like many people in Britain, I have an affectionate respect for the Queen, and am surprised that I should be having such republican thoughts.
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Political stories in general are tough. They just don't appeal to as wide an audience.
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I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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I'll hear people say every so often that having HIV must not be so bad - 'Just look at Magic and how well he's doing.'
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The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.
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The functions of the family in a highly differentiated society are not to be interpreted as functions directly on behalf of the society, but on behalf of personality.
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One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy and vexatious thought.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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As a working-class actor, leaving school with no qualifications, being a printer and then becoming an actor and then working with people who to a certain extent had had a leg up. I never had that advantage. It's less an artistic need to express myself and more a need to prove myself.
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That's what I like about Neil Jordan's films: everyone is better at what they do than you are.
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Before the show, we see all these radio people, and most of them say, 'Garth, you're a lot calmer than I thought you were gonna be.' But when the members of the band give one another that handshake, and the lights go out, and the crowd goes up, then you're sliding into the elevator, man, your heart is just going bopbopbopbopbop.
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I can't imagine going on when there are no more expectations.
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If you turn the other cheek, you can be enslaved for 1,000 years.
