Matthew Henson Quotes
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The trick to acting is not to show off, it's to think the thoughts of the character.
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Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I'm not the best at video games, but I play them a lot.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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I think, like any artist, those baby songs are not the best things you've ever written, but they count because they're you're first attempts at creating art and expressing yourself.
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To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.
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I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.
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Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.
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My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
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I need my fill of Indian home cooking.
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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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When I was at school, I used to end every school day with fountain pen ink all over my hands and face and down my shirt.
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I'm not more or less conscious than any other rapper out there.
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
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Whenever I write, I'm always thinking of the reader.
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I am grim of mind and wrathful of spirit and I have no desire to be nice to anyone.
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I don't think there are any students who should not be exposed to a basic financial literacy course.
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I believe in women. I believe in myself. I believe in my body.
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I'm an extra in your story. Well, you're an extra in mine, boy.
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The world of women fascinates me, probably because my sister and I were always together as children in our mother's salon after school and after ballet classes. We used to talk about what we saw: the different ladies who would come in, all with their distinctive personalities.
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I think I'm the first man to sit on top of the world.
