Jake LaMotta Quotes
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When I was, like, 16, I went in to the head of Disney, and I hadn't taken acting class really at all, and I didn't know what I was doing, and it was really embarrassing. Of course, you think Disney wants over-the-top and funny, and I was just trying to be over-the-top and funny, and it just wasn't working, and that was the worst.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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Those are my favorite kind of parts to do, just being a goofball and seeing how far you can go with something until you're just way out of line.
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Politics and power is a realm of relative influence.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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So yeah, I play the piano for most of the show, but I like rock and roll.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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Everybody has their struggles.
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People make mistakes. They say stupid things.
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I wasn't pampered the way a Tyrone Power was.
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I never thought I would go to Gaza. It's incredibly difficult to get into, and when you get there, it's a war zone. Then they have this beach, and there's this incredible, vibrant beach culture there, which is something that I grew up with in Southern California.
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My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
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I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. I just wanted to show someone who was trying to live their life.
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I just love music, and I absorbed what I love.
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A great calamity is as old as the trilobites an hour after it has happened.
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I've got so many clothes; I can dress in any style.
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There are two rules I've always tried to live by: turn left, if you're supposed to turn right; go through any door that you're not supposed to enter. It's the only way to fight your way through to any kind of authentic feeling in a world beset by fakery.
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Their problem was how to adapt English principles and precedents to the new conditions of American life, and they solved it with singular discretion. They put as many obstacles as they could contrive, not in the way of the people's will, but of their whim.
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Typography cracked the voices of silence. (p. 283)
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At one point, there wasn't a black quarterback in the NFL. When you start winning, then you start seeing more. Jumping up and down and screaming and calling people names is not going to change anything.
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I live intimately with my characters before starting a book. I cut out pictures of them for my wall. I do time lines for each major character and a time line for the entire novel: What is going on in the world as my characters struggle with their problems?
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Even the best thief in the world can't steal time.
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I was tough at a very young age, where I was just fighting all the time.
