Aaron Douglas Quotes
I love going to conventions, and I love spending time with the fans and going to parts of the world where I wouldn't normally go.
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It is important to be well read, at least a little bit.
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Most of the producers don't know what they do. The misconception of the producers' function is really not a misconception. Most producers don't do a very good job.
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I made a name for myself as someone who is determined to swim against the stream if it's dirty.
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I personally don't like to rehearse so much. I really sort of trust my instinct.
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I'm Cuban, so I know a lot of people who act like vampires. But wait, vampires have to be invited to your house, so maybe they are nothing like Latinos!
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It's more important than ever for America to rededicate itself to manufacturing at home. When we make more products in America, more American families will make it.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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Comedians do movies and TV so that when they tour, they sell out. That's the goal: To get popular enough so the place is packed.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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I'm parodied as being some right-wing fundamentalist extremist, it just isn't true. The parody doesn't reflect reality.
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I work with some of the funniest writers in the country.
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Our environment, the world in which we live and work, is a mirror of our attitudes and expectations.
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I think most people's careers in theater are based on delusion. It's just that mine started early.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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I always take a cashmere blanket, and I have pictures of my family in my passport holder.
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My art originates from hallucinations only I can see. I translate the hallucinations and obsessional images that plague me into sculptures and paintings.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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We should have hope because we've earned it. We've worked for it! It's ours.
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We keep calling for accountability and reinvestment and a push for all of us to imagine a world where black people are not policed but instead supported and loved and cared for. Where our families can feel safe and inspired and protected.
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I spent all my time on my movies worried that people were eating and that the schedule was being kept, so to have experts in those areas giving me the brain space as a writer and director is huge.
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We are the bullies of the earth: strong, foul, coarse, greedy, careless, indifferent to others, laying waste as we proceed, leaving wounds, welts, lesions, suppurations on the earth body, increasingly engulfed by our own ordure and, finally, abysmally ignorant of the way the world works, crowing our superiority over all life.
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I love going to conventions, and I love spending time with the fans and going to parts of the world where I wouldn't normally go.
