Don Cheadle Quotes
The process changes slightly from role to role. Obviously, there are different things you're called on to do. You're not digging deep for Basher Tarr like I was for Paul Rusesabagina, but at the end of the day it's still all make-believe and you still are trying as realistically as you can to depict these characters.
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The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.
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I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.
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It's always been a desire of mine to work with my parents.
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I think the best president - because he changed the whole mood of the country, the whole economy of the country, and stood up to Communism... that was continuing its causes around the world, and backed them off and caused them to collapse - and that was Ronald Reagan.
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I've had grand pianos that are more expensive than, like, a year's worth of rent.
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If you can get yourself where you're not afraid of dying, then you can move forward a lot faster.
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Yeah, I'm from Jersey; it's almost like I was automatically born a Nets fan.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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'OLTL' has now allowed me to sing through the character as Blair. If you've followed my 20-some-odd-year career, you know I am a singer.
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For me, it's very offensive when I notice that it's all about my appearance, how I look, that a man doesn't care who I am.
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I find a lot of young filmmakers make too much of an effort to be trendy and they can be pretentious.
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
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The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.
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As far as the Russians were concerned, I felt the reverse; they had adequate gold, if they wanted to buy, and they weren't dependent upon international trade. I felt they were more self-sufficient.
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I think awards are good for the movie. They can bring a new audience to the movie. I've always claimed that things like that don't get you work. Work gets you work. That's my blue-collar, protestant work ethic.
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I'm not well versed on the verbiage of the internet.
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I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'
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Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.
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I love it when a character requires me to look less than my red-carpet best.
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When I was in the middle of the 'Scott Pilgrim' series, and it was slowly becoming more popular, though still not financially solvent, I had this real bratty instinct to turn around and do something super arty and dark. I felt dismissed by comics culture, stuck in between the artcomix world and the nerdcomix world, and I was cranky about it.
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People share everything on Facebook. That can be a very good thing or a very noisy thing. With Foursquare, people know that they're getting information specifically about a place, advice about where they are and what they could be doing. It's a very filtered view of the world.
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I think for love to work you have to be with someone who you want to talk to before going to bed at night.
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The process changes slightly from role to role. Obviously, there are different things you're called on to do. You're not digging deep for Basher Tarr like I was for Paul Rusesabagina, but at the end of the day it's still all make-believe and you still are trying as realistically as you can to depict these characters.
