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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Making art is not the matter of a moment, and nor is making an exhibition; curating follows art.
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An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, or of moving the public to joyous merriment, cannot always be satisfied to set aside her whole career, in the work that she loves, simply because she is married.
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Nobody wants to get locked up, although 'locked up' is a matter of perspective. There can be people who are out who are in prison mentally and emotionally and worse off than those who are behind bars.
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Hate and mistrust are the children of blindness.
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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.
