Douglas Southall Freeman Quotes
What is character? It is that quality of man which is going to make a man, in an hour of strain, do the just and, if possible, the generous thing.
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I think whatever you have in your life, my opinion is that if you know that there's something wrong, you try to fix it.
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When people embrace character, there's latzie. It's the stuffing of a scene that's not written. It's not in the stage direction and it's not in the words. When people embrace character, it informs their living, breathing moments in a scene so well.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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My dad is a comedian, entertainer, you know. He always likes to make people laugh. With me, it just depends on what mood I'm in. You get what you get.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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Polls that have been taken by kindergarten, first- and second-grade teachers indicate that 30 percent of the kids have been deprived in some way so that they are physically unable to keep up with the class.
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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The first Indy was definitely the one I remember. It's my favorite race I've ever done. It's the most memorable race I've ever done, for sure. Even more than when I won. I just remember everything about it.
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I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca.
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A phoenix, Beirut seems to always pull itself out its ashes, reinvents itself, has been conquered numerous times in its 7,000-year history, yet it survives by both becoming whatever its conquerors wished it to be and retaining its idiosyncratic persona.
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When you agree to work with a filmmaker, it's important that you accept their world. It's an adventure. I like that. I throw myself into the director's arms, into their universe.
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The first time I worked with colors was by making these mosaics of Pantone swatches. They end up being very large pictures, and I photographed with a very large camera - an 8x10 camera. So you can see the surface of every single swatch - like in this picture of Chuck Close. And you have to walk very far to be able to see it.
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My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.
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I look formidable.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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The opportunity, number one, to work with Ang Lee is an amazing thing for me.
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Sunspel is about British craft and community - both of which are very important to me.
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It was a show. Everyone played their parts masterfully.
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The time was when a library was very like a museum and the librarian a mouser among dusty books. The time is when the library is a school and the librarian in the highest sense a teacher.
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What is character? It is that quality of man which is going to make a man, in an hour of strain, do the just and, if possible, the generous thing.
