Donald Faison Quotes
If you have something to get off of your chest, there is a proper way to do it. Everybody has a bad day, and, for some people, you're under a microscope and you have to deal with the consequences of having a bad day in front of people. But everyone has them.
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Graffiti has an interesting relationship to the broader world of hip-hop: It's part of the culture, but also in a weird way a stepchild of the culture.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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Sometimes I try a Mai Tai. It's so fruity. It's a little embarrassing, but I like it.
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I do not have bad days. I don't wake up in the morning and think that I'm going to get AIDS. I don't dream bad dreams about it. If I did, I'd be giving in to the negativity.
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Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
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America believes what's good for us is good for the world. It's very difficult to understand that that's not necessarily true.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
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There is a certain amount of dissatisfaction that goes with knowing your time, talent and abilities are not being properly used.
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It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
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I think sometimes if you are too interested in day-to-day politics, you lose sight of the long term.
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Education is so important.
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If I were to work with my mom, I probably would not want her to play my mom. That would get too real.
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Theater is dangerously open to repetition. It's exciting when you hit on a new way.
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I regret what happened. I saw no other possibility to achieve my goal. It was not hooliganism.
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I remember when I was a kid, with the acting thing, I resented it because, you know, you don't want to do what your parents want you to do.
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Well, just coming off the stage and there's like 180,000 people out there and your adrenaline is going so high, and you're doing so much and it's hard to just put your head on the pillow and sleep because it just goes on and on, even after you're off the stage.
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My idols are singers like Billie Holiday and Erykah Badu because there's no gloss on what they do.
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If you have something to get off of your chest, there is a proper way to do it. Everybody has a bad day, and, for some people, you're under a microscope and you have to deal with the consequences of having a bad day in front of people. But everyone has them.
