Boozoo Chavis Quotes
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I really don't know life without wrestling.
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A lot of people think theatre must be much harder work than film, but anything histrionic or superfluous gets seen on camera so you have to work to distil it into a complete sense of what's true.
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Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
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I get a great high from writing.
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Getting your house in order and reducing the confusion gives you more control over your life. Personal organization some how releases or frees you to operate more effectively.
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I would have quit before I went rock-n-roll. I know one way, and that's natural, and when I can't make it, I'll come home and stay. I believe in my music.
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I am going to be the next Ryan Gosling.
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I think America is really in denial about the degree to which residents, particularly foreign medical graduates, man the county hospitals of this country, and but for their services, I'm not sure how exactly we could manage.
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At D.O.J., we don't want to go after the corporate wrongdoers simply as an end unto itself; we want to decrease the amount of corporate wrongdoing that happens in the first place. We want to restore and help protect the corporate culture of responsibility.
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We all live under some repression; we have to, it's part of the deal.
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It was never easy being Cicely Tyson. And it will not be easy being Octavia or Viola Davis.
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I think people found out I'm just like anybody else. I've got problems, too.
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And we shared the story of Korean War veteran Dick Shank, who made it home to that baby boy, and lived out his life - at 84 years old, he was still roller skating - because no war should ever be forgotten and no veteran should ever be overlooked.
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For the most wild, yet most homely narrative which I am about to pen, I neither expect nor solicit belief. Mad indeed would I be to expect it, in a case where my very senses reject their own evidence. Yet, mad am I not - and very surely do I not dream. But to-morrow I die, and to-day I would unburthen my soul.
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What we have to do is to be forever curiously testing new opinions and courting new impressions.
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It seemed to be pretty plain, that they had more of love than matrimony in them.
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War is an act of violence pushed to its utmost bounds.
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I hate getting old, but I'm sticking with it!
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Growing up, I loved comedy even before I knew that you could be a stand-up comedian.
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I want to balance my projects. Ideally, I'd like to do at least one indie film, a mainstream movie, and a TV series in a year - the best of both worlds.
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I was so intimidated by the thought of improvising back in the '80s when I was in Chicago. I think the opportunity only even came up once that I can recall, and I turned down the offer. It was to go improvise in some club in the suburbs or something. Good God, I couldn't think of anything more frightening than to get up there without a plan.
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Nothing from nothing leaves nothing.
