Larry King Quotes
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I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.
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I like going after good material, well-written material.
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People tell you you're having chemotherapy, but there are different types of chemotherapy, and you don't know which one you're going to get and how it's going to affect you. The people in the hospitals don't always have time to help you understand it.
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My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.
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People asked, 'So what are you - a multimillionaire?' I like to say, 'A billionaire wanna-be.'
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There are films like 'Interstellar' where you cannot replicate the experience of seeing it in IMAX - it's an amazing film presented in a spectacular way. It really is an experience, like going to Disneyland, and you can't replicate that by watching home videos of going to Disneyland.
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Enjoy the satisfaction that comes from doing little things well.
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Censorship is advertising paid by the government.
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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
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I wanna live 'til I die, no more, no less.
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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Norma Bates is insanely crazy, but you can't help but love her.
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I did documentaries for maybe 10 years before I turned to fiction films.
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You have to find a way - and thankfully for me, it's been music - to separate yourself from the racial identity. It's not easy, and I continue to work, God bless, and I'm really, truly appreciative of it.
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Geffen was never supportive of the band.
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There's always merit to having a debate.
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We don't have performances as big as 'Lemonade Mouth' on 'Zeke and Luther,' but they're both amazing experiences; just, 'Lemonade Mouth' was a bit bigger. It was different for me.
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Christ was only crucified once and for a few hours. Think of the hundreds of thousands whom Christ has been crucifying in a quiet way ever since.
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My fans know the name Larry Holmes and that he always gave it his all.
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If honor were profitable, everybody would be honorable.
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It's so hard for me to wrap my head around the concept of truth, I don't even know what people mean by it.
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You write a lot of books; you hope you get better.
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Never give the devil a ride! He will always want to drive!
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I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.
