Brandon Victor Dixon Quotes
Berry Gordy has always been this hazy legendary figure that I've known about in my childhood that was responsible for everything that I found important in the world.
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Awards don't really mean much.
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On the day when I was shot, all of my friends' faces were covered, except mine.
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I have selective hearing.
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You turn up on set, and somebody who has come out of Oxford, has done a BBC course, is telling you how to act. You think, 'Do me a favour. Go and make a coffee.'
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I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
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My basic feeling about military intervention is that it should be a last resort, undertaken only to stave off large-scale bloodshed.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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Eventually somebody will want me, and there will be a role that is mine.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
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If you look at a lot of the songs I've been involved in, there's always been this retro vibe. I started getting worried that I wasn't moving forward very much, nor was I even in tune with the music today. I almost scoffed at it.
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I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.
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Whenever I have a bad day I just think of these people.
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We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.
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All the audience cares about is what you put up on the screen.
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A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.
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'Duty' is a refreshingly honest memoir and a moving one. Mr. Gates scrupulously identifies his flaws and mistakes: He waited too long, for example, for the military bureaucracy to fix critical supply issues like the drones needed in Iraq and took three years to replace a dysfunctional command structure in Afghanistan.
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In every European nation, there have been problems in history when the society was too divided.
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You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.
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You're filmed that one very special day of the pageant, and you want to make sure you're as ready to go as you can be.
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All your horse looks for is the thing that matters most, peace and contentment. Give it to him.
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The most important thing to me is that it's all really raw.
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Baseball players have such a bad rap of, like, 'We don't work out or we're not strong or this or that.' Guys work so hard in baseball, it's incredible. But people don't know that.
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Berry Gordy has always been this hazy legendary figure that I've known about in my childhood that was responsible for everything that I found important in the world.
