Larry Wilmore Quotes
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I'm constantly trying to find something that's different from me, whereas some actors do the same thing, again and again. That's not for me.
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I always knew would be some sort of artist, but didn't know what.
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I believe politicians should always remain realistic.
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The human capacity to be curious has always existed.
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I cannot always control what goes on outside. But I can always control what goes on inside.
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I think my mission, if I could call it that, as a storyteller is to try and find ways to show how similar we are and not how different we are.
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I wouldn't want to cover a Hank Williams song in a country-western way. It doesn't occur to me instinctually to re-create productions. I'm interested in re-creating songs. Putting different clothes on them.
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Being bi-racial and being from the country, I can talk to guys like Travis Frederick from Wisconsin and Doug Free from Wisconsin. And then I can go over and talk to Dez Bryant. I mean, think about the two different standpoints you need to have a real conversation with both, to really understand what they've been through.
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My wife thought I deserved it, but I always thought the Nobel a Western prize.
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Never jeopardize who you are for a role. Now, I'm not saying you should never change for a role, because the fun of being different characters is adapting different nuances and different parts of the character, but never jeopardize your moral compass or anything like that to have a role.
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I've always been into older homes, even if I have to refurbish or remodel or raise roof lines or knock out walls.
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One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
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I think women are by nature competitive - secretly, privately within their own selves, on lots of different levels, on the way they look, perform.
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Bringing GIS into schools gets the kids very excited and indirectly teaches them different components of STEM education. That's been illustrated at school after school.
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In the '50s, I was traveling alone all over Mindanao, Basilan, all the way to Tawi-Tawi with just a camera and a notebook. I always stayed in the houses of Moros.
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Simply, there are many things I would like to do.
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The biggest research of all when I do a character is self-examination. You look at yourself and you ask, 'How am I similar to this person and how am I different?'
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I love collaborating with different people.
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There are a lot of different beliefs for tightening up your core. I think just being conscious of it and being aware to engage your muscles will help any woman's tummy get in shape.
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I mean, sometimes I hate interviews because I always feel like I sound stupid.
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You meet folks who are funny and really smart and persistent and loving that are confronting this thing we call poverty, which is just a shorthand for this way of life that holds you underwater. And you just wonder what our country would be if we allowed these people to flourish and reach their full potential.
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Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.
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My understanding of films was just as much as any young girl who watches Bollywood films. I had no idea about the whole process of filmmaking, about dialogue writing, scripts, screenplay etc. I had probably gone to two or three film shoots in my childhood.
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I always compartmentalized so many different things.
