Paloma Ayana Stoecker (Delilah) Quotes
My little brother can play the guitar; he can sing. He was a worship leader at his church. Me, no talent.
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I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.
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Corruption is not the sole test of your worthiness to form the government.
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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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If I was a condiment, I'm gonna go ahead and say I would be Sriracha, because I go well with other things. I'm too much for some people, and hipsters like me.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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I feel an intense intimacy with those who have this loathing interest in me. Further than this, I know what they mean, I sympathize with them, I understand them. There should be a name (as poetic as love) for this relationship between loather and loathed; it is of the closest and more full of passion than incest.
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Paddy Considine is a great friend of mine, and he is a natural actor because he is an artist, and I'm not an artist. If I ever blow my own trumpet, it's as a craftsman.
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I would sooner read a time-table or a catalogue than nothing at all. They are much more entertaining than half the novels that are written.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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No one can control the aging process or the trajectory of illness.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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I have a very balanced posture about the political situation in my country.
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Part of me looks forward to a time when I have a family and a partner and I take less of my nourishment from social occasions. Having a little unit around me will make my working life easier, because it is quite lonely otherwise.
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We have so many films that we can fit into the slate a year, and we spend $100 million on those films in order to make $400 million dollars. We don't spend $20 million in hopes of eking out $40 million.
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Where would heist movies be without the Big Score - that payoff so irresistible it can lure the most jaded desperado out of hiding?
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You can analyse a joke and say it's funny because this guy thought this was going to happen, and that happened, and it's surprising. But not all surprising things are funny.
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My little brother can play the guitar; he can sing. He was a worship leader at his church. Me, no talent.
