Dennis Haysbert Quotes
I've studied theater since high school. Of course, it's a different story altogether being on Broadway, but it's still theater, and you have to be in front of a live audience, and that's very exciting. It's something I've definitely wanted to do, but I got involved in movies and television, and then it became a luxury to get back on the stage.
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Think and grow rich.
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You can't hold back. You can't think of the subtleties of playing. You just have to get out and really bare it all, and hopefully you don't fall off the plank. And if you do, hey, pick yourself up, dust yourself down, and start all over again.
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Why would I want a place of my own? Then I would have to things worry about, like doing laundry and having food in the fridge.
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The characteristic feature of modernity is criticism: what is new is set over and against what is old, and it is this constant contrast that constitutes the continuity of tradition.
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The last few years of my life have been a little like a long ride in a Poop de Ville with the bottom down.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
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I'm a vulnerable, sensitive person. I overthink everything.
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Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
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Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
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I think that the poorest of the poor... look up to wealthy and successful Indians with some degree of respect and pride.
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One of the great rewards of a writer's life is that it lets you read all the books you want to without feeling guilty.
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'It is what you believe that translates in the life you live.'
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I lived near the border with China, and one night, I simply left home and walked across the iced-over river that separated the two countries. I was fortunate that my family had close relationships with some of the border guards, so I was able to cross without incident.
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That's the time that I enjoy: away from the cameras, away from the audience, the scenery of going out to eat and everybody's staring at me.
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I believe that... every one of God's creatures was created equal. I believe that everyone should be treated equal, that's the way I was raised and that's the way I live my life.
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I built up these lumber piles of love, and with fourteen boards each I built little houses, so that your eyes, which I adore and sing to, might live in them. Now that I have declared the foundations of my love, I surrender this century to you: wooden sonnets that rise only because you gave them life.
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I've studied theater since high school. Of course, it's a different story altogether being on Broadway, but it's still theater, and you have to be in front of a live audience, and that's very exciting. It's something I've definitely wanted to do, but I got involved in movies and television, and then it became a luxury to get back on the stage.
