Jeffrey Wright Quotes
What I've appreciated about the 'Bond' films is there's always been a subtle social relevance to them. They've always commented on the times.
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I met Arthur Ashe a few times. I know how important education was to him.
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If you learn the craft, you can make a movie and get by with tricks.
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I try to choose the projects that I think are the most well-written and well-executed, and the rest of it is so beyond my control to be almost not worth thinking about at all.
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I know I can't plan in this business, but I'm going to keep going as long as I keep getting close... So far, I feel lucky and infinitely grateful for the successes that I've had. I'm just going to keep working hard, and whatever happens, happens.
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On a normal day, we value heroism because it is uncommon. On Sept. 11, we valued heroism because it was everywhere.
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My father always said, 'Malala will be free as a bird.'
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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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In 1998, I self-published online in order to get a traditional deal.
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Also, there are now new laws in Brazil which create incentives for Argentine and Latin American films to be premiered and distributed in Brazil and vice versa.
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Being human always points, and is directed, to something or someone, other than oneself - be it a meaning to fulfill or another human being to encounter.
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I think once you're in the public eye, whether you're a boss, a teacher or whatever you do, that you're automatically in the position of role model. You have people looking up to you, so whether you choose to accept it or not is a different question.
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My work ethic is from sports.
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You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.
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Everyone wants me to be this political person... I'm not Malcolm X.
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My life has been tragic and disastrous since birth.
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There is a significant momentum behind the social Internet. A wide range of public investors were very enthusiastic about that.
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All of my walls are covered with framed pictures of my friends.
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If we're going to win in 2016, we need a consistent conservative: someone who has been a fiscal conservative, a social conservative, a national security conservative.
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Thin people release the fork, and they chew the food with the fork on the table. They chew their food slowly. They look around at each other or the wall or a picture. They listen to the music. They sit back and take a breath. They do something other than concentrate on shoving the food into their body.
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I should only ever tell the king what he ought to do, not what he could do. For if the lion knows his own strength, no man could control him.
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If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.
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Anyone who's had a tattoo knows once you get your first one, as you're walking out the door, you're planning the next.
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What I've appreciated about the 'Bond' films is there's always been a subtle social relevance to them. They've always commented on the times.
