Denzel Washington Quotes
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Someone I met years ago explained to me the difference between a personality and an actor, a personality being Eddie Murphy or Roseanne Barr, and an actor being Morgan Freeman and Alfre Woodard or Marlon Brando.
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Yes, the companionship is amazing. You know, you can get that physical attraction that happens is great, but then there's an awful lot of time and the rest of the day that you have to fill.
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Just personally, I've been attached to 'On the Road' since 2007 and it was the greatest thing in my life when I got cast in it. I couldn't believe it. When I was 17 and read the book, I looked it up on IMDb and it said that Francis Ford Coppola was going to direct it.
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I'm putting myself out there in a way I don't know if I ever have before.
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What's amazing is that so many leaders who value teamwork will tolerate people who aren't humble. They reluctantly hire self-centred people and then justify it because those people have desired skills.
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Poetry is the elder sister of history, the mother of language, the ancestress of civilization.
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I visualized high school as being like 'Saved By the Bell.' I decided I would do all the things they did on that show.
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Honestly, a lot of people thought that I was on top of the world selling so many millions of records, and that this is the life that everybody would want, but I never got to enjoy any of my success.
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But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?
Nastassja Kinski -
I love the feeling I get when I'm on a set; I love reading the scripts, playing the characters, getting to be someone else.
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It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.
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I liked that idea. Someone who's trying to perform herself and not succeeding.
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I'm kind of honored to be a dragon lady. The dragon is a very powerful, mythical animal.
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There is still need to think and plan, but on a different scale, and along different lines.
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The striving for significance, this sense of yearning, always points out to us that all psychological phenomena contain a movement that starts from a feeling of inferiority and reach upward. The theory of Individual Psychology of psychological compensation states that the stronger the feeling of inferiority, the higher the goal for personal power.
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In secret we metIn silence I grieve,That thy heart could forget,Thy spirit deceive.If I should meet theeAfter long years,How should I greet thee?With silence and tears.
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The difference between the most dissimilar characters, between a philosopher and a common street porter, for example, seems to arise not so much from nature, as from habit, custom, and education.
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People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live...We never cease to stand like curious children before the great mystery into which we were born.
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Urban is not actually my world. It was me trying something out, basically. I come from a gospel background.
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Never work for money or power, be honest, don't feel entitled to anything you don't sweat and struggle for, and always finish what you start.
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It's not easy to walk out on a marriage and two young kids, and it's the most difficult thing I've ever had to do.
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Charity without faith is meaningless, and faith without charity remains a dead letter.
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I think I'm a combination of very simple pleasures and the fact I've read a lot of books. I don't think it's a binary opposition across the board in humans and I think I'm an example that it's not. I'm hosting gay marriage rallies and I have tons of guns at home. There's a lot of middle ground in the world and I'm one of those people.
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I'm not a film buff. I don't watch a lot of movies.
