Denzel Washington Quotes
I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.
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I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.
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We have such little mystery in our lives generally because of how we live now. I mean, of course, mystery is all around us, but the way we live our lives now, we're too busy to be bothered with it.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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I'm normal. I just had a different occupation for a while, and when you're in a different occupation, you have to carry yourself a different way. Most of my art is me bringing you stories from that era of my life. My life now is kind of boring.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.
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You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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I do not watch horror films. At all. I am not a horror film girl; I don't have the stomach for it. I've seen a few in my lifetime, like 'The Shining' or 'Carrie,' but I can't sleep for, like, a week after I see something like that.
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Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
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There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.
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The evangelical Christian faith I'd grown up with sustained me. It demanded that I refuse the drugs and alcohol on offer in our southwestern Ohio town, that I treat my friends and family kindly, and that I work hard in school. Most of all, when times were toughest, it gave me reason to hope.
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Adequacy is sufficient.
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If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.
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Singing is my passion, my first love and the secret of my energy. Music to me is like finding my inner self, my soul. It gives me a great joy to see audiences enjoying with me. I have given my heart to singing. When I sing, I can feel romance in everything around me.
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Events at home, at work, in the street - these are the bases for a story.
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When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.
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Authenticity is very important - be true to one's self.
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Everyone's so used to taking care of actors and directors, but people in the crew are there the longest and working the hardest.
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It is not enough to belong to a religion. You also have to put it into practice. Religion is like medicine. You have to ingest it to combat the illness.
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I don't know if it has set in or not. Honestly, it's crazy. It's such an amazing honor. I remember thinking back to being in my room waiting for the call to see if I got the part. It's like winning the lottery. I'm proud to be a member of such an amazing cast - that's the best award of all.
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There's also some element of coming of age during the Reagan administration, which everybody has painted as some glorious time in America, but I remember as being a very, very dark time. There was apocalypse in the air; the punk rock movement made sense.
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Whether it's one scene or 15 scenes in a film, whether it's the lead or a cameo part, if I don't find it interesting, I tend not to do it. You never really know what it is. It could be a one-scene part. I remember I read the one scene in Crash and was asked to do it. I was like, "Absolutely!" There's no formula for how something has to be. I always try to keep it that way.
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I still have my unemployment books and I remember when I worked for the sanitation department and the post office.
