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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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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I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
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I will not say I would not serve if the good people were imprudent enough to elect me.
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I put myself in the hands of Christ, who is the true leader of the church.
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You have to be in movies that make money to be offered work. Basically that's the equation. There's no real way around that. That said, you don't ever make decisions solely for that reason.
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The only reason why God created man is because he was disappointed with the monkey.
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You can't please everyone. When you're too focused on living up to other people's standards, you aren't spending enough time raising your own. Some people may whisper, complain and judge. But for the most part, it's all in your head. People care less about your actions than you think. Why? They have their own problems!
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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.
