Jeffrey Wright Quotes
For lack of any clearer idea, I just started acting one day. It had been in the back of my head for a while, but I think in some ways I was afraid to do it, and finally I just stepped up.
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All the marketing and advertising sells the book as what it is and hopes that the book will be displayed so that your readers can find it.
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It's not any desire on my part to start playing dads, but it's a convention of drama. If you don't get the parts of young people going out to nightclubs, you have to play their fathers.
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Throughout my Enterprise career, I have been primarily operationally focused.
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As far as religion goes, I feel like everyone should have their own one-on-one with God.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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In China, we don't know about the swimming pool game, but we know about Marco Polo.
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Kids in a home with grandparents are healthier.
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I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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If tomorrow the Chinese decide not to supply the world with raw materials, the pharma industry would collapse.
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It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.
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Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it. It enriches the necessary competencies that daily life requires and provides; and in this respect, it irrigates the deserts that our lives have already become.
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It should take you 15 minutes to make a song, and then get out of there.
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You learn something out of everything, and you come to realize more than ever that we're all here for a certain space of time, and, and then it's going to be over, and you better make this count.
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Why is it that a large majority of Hindus do not inter-dine and do not inter-marry? Why is it that your cause is not popular? There can be only one answer to this question, and it is that inter-dining and inter-marriage are repugnant to the beliefs and dogmas which the Hindus regard as sacred.
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Life is about perspective and how you look at something... ultimately, you have to zoom out.
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The kingdom of God is an order of government established by divine authority. It is the only legal government that can exist in any part of the universe.
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The man who has become a thinking being feels a compulsion to give every will-to-live the same reverence for life that he gives to his own. He experiences that other life in his own.
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Popularity gets up people's noses. But I understand the importance and the function of popular music. There is an artistic purpose. Popular music helps people to develop a curiosity and leads them towards classical music.
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I never doubted at all. If you ever doubt then you are in trouble. I never thought: 'I should do this or that in case I don't make it.' I never had a back-up plan.
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For lack of any clearer idea, I just started acting one day. It had been in the back of my head for a while, but I think in some ways I was afraid to do it, and finally I just stepped up.
