Djimon Hounsou Quotes
I like stories that have a social impact and social attributes to them. That's the whole reason we make films: to broaden our limited view of things and to see how life is evolving elsewhere.
Quotes to Explore
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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I started playing piano when I was 6, ukulele at 7.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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That's what we were exploring on 'Larry Sanders' - the human qualities that have brought us to where we are now in the world: the addiction to needing more and wanting more and talking more. We were examining the labels put on success - is it successful to be on TV every day, to be famous, to have a paycheck?
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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If I don't create, I don't exist.
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I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could hope for, and about half of my hair. Not the half I would have kept, but no one consulted me.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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Unfortunately, 'chick flick' has become a term to describe most movies that I don't even like. They're these movies that, yes, have women in them but they really don't reflect who women are, and there's something kind of silly or shallow or gossipy about them.
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What really matters is who you are when you step on the field, and I will let my bat and my glove speak for themselves.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!
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Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied.
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To say that I am pro life is just wrong. I am personally pro-choice and legislatively pro-choice.
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I have on my office wall a wise and useful reminder by Anne Morrow Lindbergh concerning one of the realities of life. She wrote, 'My life cannot implement in action the demands of all the people to whom my heart responds.' That's good counsel for us all, not as an excuse to forgo duty, but as a sage point about pace and the need for quality in relationships.
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No, I thought, growing more rebellious, life has its own laws and it is for me to defend myself against whatever comes along, without going snivelling to God about sin, my own or other people's. How would it profit a man if he got into a tight place, to call he people who put him there miserable sinners? Or himself a miserable sinner? I disliked the levelling aspect of this sinnerdom, it was like a cricket match played in a drizzle, where everybody had an excuse - and what a dull excuse! - for playing badly. Life was meant to test a man, bring out his courage, initiative, resource; and I longed, I thought, to be tested: I didn't want to fall on my knees and call myself a miserable sinner. But the idea of goodness did attract me, for I did not regard it as the opposite of sin. I saw it as something bright and positive and sustaining, like the sunshine, something to be adored, but from afar.
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The only difference between your abilities and others is the ability to put yourself in their shoes and actually try.
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We have to evolve … I will make sure we keep what we’re good at. We’re renowned for our physicality. We have to be a bit smarter with where we want to use our physicality.
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I like stories that have a social impact and social attributes to them. That's the whole reason we make films: to broaden our limited view of things and to see how life is evolving elsewhere.
