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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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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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 don't ever want to be a person that I'm not. A lot of girls fall into the trap where they are trying to impress other people, and that's the time when they lose themselves.
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If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
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'Lord of the Rings' was a childhood favorite, though the adult Rae wishes the women in those books had more significance and agency.
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In many ways [those middle-aged black ladies] my touchstone, because they are what I meant when I talked about the audacity of hope.
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I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations.
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Why, instead of bringing order - planting a tree, building a house, washing socks or reading a fairytale to a child - does one need to engage in doing nothing, then after a good booze, taking up a club and smashing everything?
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When I was growing up, I heard horror stories about producers losing their houses overnight. No matter who the family is, hearing of them getting evicted is very sad.
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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.
