Donald Faison Quotes
Until 'Scrubs,' I didn't have a business manager. I learned everything on my own - and I learned the hard way.
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I don't normally cook, but if I did it probably would be beans, sausage, bacon and eggs. I never really get to eat that to be honest.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often with the best of intentions, has tried put a personal stamp on the character, whether it be to try and make him more current, or cool, or have a broader appeal, etc.
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The '80s made up for all the abuse I took during the '70s. I outlived all my critics. By the time I retired, everybody saw me as a venerable institution. Things do change.
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Language does not make one an elite.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses.
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Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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It's the face and the body and the thing that we hide inside that can keep us from the world, but my voice is my voice.
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I no longer get into stupid thought wormholes about identity and stuff. At one time, I did have some impostor syndrome about acting, but then I remembered I've been doing this since I was little, actually.
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Thrift shopping is all about going into the thrift shop and having no expectation of what you might find.
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The thing about the max is, you're worth whatever somebody is willing to pay you, in my mind.
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Practice is everything. This is often misquoted as Practice makes perfect.
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Every autobiography ... becomes an absorbing work of fiction, with something of the charm of a cryptogram.
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My sister listened to reggae, and my homies listened to trap music.
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Shane looked faintly injured. “I make it my business to know everything about silver. And I saw your notes. I study up on everything when it comes to your boss, anyway.” There was a flicker of jealousy about that, but she didn’t have time, or energy, to consider it very much. Not even whether or not she liked it.
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Until 'Scrubs,' I didn't have a business manager. I learned everything on my own - and I learned the hard way.
