Emmanuel Lewis Quotes
Since I know how crazy this business is, I do the opposite of what I see other people doing.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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You mustn't upstage the bride.
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Hollywood can be a really tough environment for anyone trying to make a living. Unfortunately for actors of color, namely Asian Americans, opportunities have been and remain substantially limited. One place this is not the case is on 'Hawaii Five-0,' where we have three Asian American series regulars and a landscape rich with diversity.
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I have to stay calm, cool, and collected.
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Homosexuals are riding high in the media.
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Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race.
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When men I have dated over the years whined about, 'Oh, you make no time for me' - see ya! I just dumped them. I don't need that pressure in my life.
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To go behind a man's hall-door is mean, cowardly, unfair opposition.
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I want to write a film. I need to think of the right idea and focus on that; I love writing.
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Our concept of governing is derived from our view of people. It is a concept deeply rooted in a set of beliefs firmly etched in the national conscience, of all of us.
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Britain is no longer one of the world's price setters. It is painful. It is a challenge to us in government to explain all that, and it is a pity that the political class is not preparing the public for it to understand how massive the problem is.
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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A good discourse is that from which nothing can be retrenched without cutting into the quick.
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Music in the soul can be heard by the universe.
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I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it.
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'No Bones' has some reverb that I kick around.
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Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones are two of my favorites. I'm not so much younger than them. I like that. It's kind of aspirational.
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Whoever hired me might've just heard 'Refugee.' Well, I'm not the secret to 'Refugee.' The secret to 'Refugee' is the song. But if somebody really good calls me up to play on something because they like the way I played on 'Refugee,' then I wind up playing on another really good song.
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I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run as a Republican or a Democrat.
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My musical education was grounded in blues and Chicago blues - John Lee Hooker and Otis Redding.
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Every goal for me is to be a leader on the court every time I step on the court.
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Ignore what other people think. Most people aren’t even paying attention to you.
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Since I know how crazy this business is, I do the opposite of what I see other people doing.
