James Clavell Quotes
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Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids - we really run the gamut.
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I know when it's getting close to game time, I create a different playlist for each and every game. Before the game, to game time, to warm-ups, going to the stadium, I have a different playlist that puts me in a different mode.
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I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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I kinda wanted to play receiver more.
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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Whenever my body heals and the pain and all the swelling goes away is when I'll be ready.
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If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better than when he's in a suit. So I'm wearing them increasingly, not in my personal life, but in my professional life, and I'm really enjoying it.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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Exposing your ignorance is how you get somebody to embrace you.
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All my life I have fought corruption.
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The act of longing for something will always be more intense than the requiting of it.
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All peoples are entangled in the net of the world market.
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I am about safety for the people and the planet.
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I'm not good at accepting help.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
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With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests.
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I love Jamaica so much. I've been there so much, and I think it would be great if we could shoot a movie there.
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The capacity for not feeling lonely can carry a very real price, that of feeling nothing at all.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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I don't feel I'm playing villains all the time.
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I'm going to pray to our leader every time!
