Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes
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For me everything in the film was gradually building, becoming more emotional, so it helped. At the end of it all I was emotionally drained. At that point I took Rose's view, that this has to happen, there's nothing I can do about it.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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In America, everyone writes but no one reads. Everyone's writing all day long - sending emails, tweets, text messages; they all think they're James Cameron's Avatar, performing in some video game for which they make up the script.
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I want to be scared. I want to keep taking insane risks. I want to be scared because you're going to grow through that whether you want to or not. I don't want to play the same guy. I want to keep throwing curveballs to you guys and keep telling stories.
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I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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My boring, mundane, diligent kind of golf works sometimes. Actually, it works all the time. And sometimes, on the greatest stages, it really does flourish.
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My paternal grandfather was a failed novelist. He stacked boxes of rejected manuscripts in a closet.
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Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.
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You can start right where you stand and apply the habit of going the extra mile by rendering more service and better service than you are now being paid for.
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Capitalism has its weaknesses. But it is capitalism that ended the stranglehold of the hereditary aristocracies, raised the standard of living for most of the world and enabled the emancipation of women.
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The whole voiceover world is new and different to me and quite challenging.
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This family at Barbour, they've made me feel very welcome.
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It's time for the State Department to permanently change its official policy to allow all members of U.S. citizens' families - no matter what size they are or how many legs they have - to evacuate together when disaster strikes.
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I like challenges. I think that's important.
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Think of social media as the Internet. I can't think of anyone betting against the Internet in 2012.
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I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.
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When my mum first told me she got sick, I didn't cry. I probably cried over my mum's illness twice.
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Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.
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Every producer I have met has asked me to change my hair. I have always said 'No.' I finally change it for me... and now everyone in the business is like, 'You have to go back to having brown hair.'
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Opportunity may only come once in a lifetime.
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Anytime you get this many light-skinned black people together at least half of them are going to be folks who act light-skinned.
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A riot is the language of the unheard.
