Jerry Coleman Quotes
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I get tired of comedies where there are a bunch of funny guys and a beautiful woman who doesn't do anything funny. And I don't like books where there's a rough-and-tumble boy and a really clever, snotty girl. That's just not my experience with teenagers.
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Having an understanding of what's possible also makes me redouble my efforts to fight those who stand in the way of doing the things that my constituents and the country would want to get done.
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I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.
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I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.
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Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
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I grew up playing sports, football, basketball, baseball, everything, and acting was such a different environment and different world for me.
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I have done theatre, and I enjoy the process of smaller films a lot more. When I do such films, there are certain things which I get to do which are untapped. The scenes give me the liberty to play and mould the character in accordance to the director's mindset.
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Being a humorist is not a voluntary thing. You can tell this because in a situation where saying a funny thing will cause a lot of trouble, a humorist will still say the funny thing. No matter how inappropriate.
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I've done a lot of things that I regret.
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I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.
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I try to cope with everything through humor.
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I've done so many commencement speeches at colleges and law schools, and I tell young women that there are no glass ceilings because those were broken by a lot of women who came before us. You can be anyone you want to be. You can do anything you want to do.
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Dallas is a positive, get-it done city.
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And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor.
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I done made music with Makonnen, Frank Ocean. We all make great music.
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The black press, some liberal sportswriters, and even a few politicians were banging away at those Jim Crow barriers in baseball. I never expected the walls to come tumbling down in my lifetime.
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Whether you hear me come out with another album or whether you hear any one of the Clan members, we're always going to involve everybody. When I look at 'Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, Part II,' I look at that as a Wu album. You feel me? Even though it was my brand and my thing that I done, I had my dudes on it.
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My girlfriend tells me if I'm doing a movie I'm a roller coaster of emotions all the time, but on 'Boardwalk,' because I've done it for so long and I'm so in tune with the character, she says I'm pretty happy most of the time.
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I never feel like anything I have done is perfect. I feel like there is always room for improvement.
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If you are worried about the risk to your reputation, you don't launch a telecoms firm in an aggressive way.
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I think it's nice to work and then have success.
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I think I've been lucky enough to have had an extended adolescence. I'm a lot like I was when I was 15.
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Growing up, there were no families on TV that looked like mine.
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Gene Richards swings, the ball bounces foul and hits him in the head. No harm done.
