Denzel Washington Quotes
Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.
Quotes to Explore
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The entire time I was up shooting 'Suits,' I was running back to my trailer to help get 'Nine Circles' produced. It's a no-brainer for me to keep that part of life alive.
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And I am a conservative. Sometimes conservatives forget we are supposed to conserve, to save, to be efficient. Plus our dependence on other sources of energy is causing our country to not be independent and to really be vulnerable. So this is a security issue.
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To this day, I've never figured out a single locked-room mystery.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
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We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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I remember looking back on a photo of me... wearing a suit that was, like, two sizes too big for me. I think a lot of guys don't know what fits.
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Religion and art spring from the same root and are close kin. Economics and art are strangers.
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It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.
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I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.
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Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
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Everyone thinks when they start writing that they can't do it. I was lucky. My sister Delia was the most important person in terms of encouraging me.
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They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.
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Radical common sense is the wisdom gleaned from the past that recognizes the perishable opportunities of the moment. It is the willingness to admit error and the refusal to be deterred by failure.
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There are a lot of options when it comes between music and acting. For me, because I'm so passionate about my music career, you have to be extremely passionate when you have opportunities like films and real money actually coming to you compared to with music.
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I know what's funny, and I probably know the best way to deliver the joke. Whether it's walking out of a room, facing that way, facing this way. I just have a sense of that.
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Almost everything I've done, I've done through my own creativity. I don't think I ever had to listen to anyone else to learn how to play drums. I wish I could say that for about ten thousand other drummers.
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I can't think of anything that I turned down that became big and successful.
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Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.
