Jamie Foxx (Eric Marlon Bishop) Quotes
That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.
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By adopting a wonderful mutt, you'll save a life and help reduce animal homelessness while also boosting your chances of a more robust new furry friend, as mixed-breed dogs have demonstrated better health and longer life spans than their purebred cousins.
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The war changed everybody's attitude. We became international almost overnight.
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I shall produce nothing that will offend the proprieties, whether applied to children or grownups. My pictures are turned out with clean hands and, therefore, with a clear conscience which, like virtue, is its own reward.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.
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I do have the odd dream where I'm on stage and I've completely forgotten what I'm meant to be performing - so they are more nightmares than dreams.
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All of the characters in my films, they share one commonality. It doesn't matter whether they are good or bad, it doesn't matter whether they are smart or stupid, these characters all take responsibility for their own behavior. I'm much the same.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did. So after that, I switched to Communications.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
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Bruckner's Eighth is a colossus.
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Today is either the beginning of the end, or the end of the beginning. Today we are making history.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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As an actress, as you get older, you find yourself in a situation where you play mothers or women who are hoping to be mothers.
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I was once invited to attend a private dinner for Senator John F. Kennedy. But it was a Saturday evening, and I passed. Had better things to do.
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I'm stronger and sassier as a redhead.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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I also have a soft spot for spicy chicken wings. They are always best eaten at dives and sports bars, like Wogie's in the West Village, New York City, near my house.
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To bring a child into the world that you cannot feed, clothe, house, and educate is the moral equivalent, in my opinion, of a drive-by shooting.
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Economic growth doesn't mean anything if it leaves people out.
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When I was a teenager in Iceland people would throw rocks and shout abuse at me because they thought I was weird. I never got that in London no matter what I wore.
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Fifty years from now, people will still be listening to Led Zeppelin. They won't even remember me.
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That's what's great about the arts. Everything inspires you, and you get a chance to grow from watching other people and how they do their work.
