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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No, you don't have to start your play with a premise. You can start with a character or an incident, or even a simple thought. This thought or incident grows, and the story slowly unfolds itself. You have time to find your premise in the mass of your material later. The important thing is to find it.
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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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I feel a social responsibility. We need to open people's eyes. There is a lack of education in Ethiopia.
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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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What's so brave about being bald? I've not fought for my country or found the cure for cancer - I've just gone out without my hat on!
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There must be people who remember World War II and the Holocaust who can help us get out of this rut.
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The proper memory for a politician is one that knows what to remember and what to forget.
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I owe my success to expansion pitching, a short right field fence, and my hollow bats.
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Nothing from nothing leaves nothing.
