Jesse Williams Quotes
It was very important to me to be with a woman who is better than me at some things. You want someone who brings new, interesting things into your life.
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About the most exciting thing a baby can do is burp - I've spent hours of my life holding a baby on my shoulder and patting its back, trying to loosen up a burp. Burping was probably invented to give the father something positive to do, since our chests are not equipped to allow us to do much else.
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The life of an actor can be very enviable.
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I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.
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Food was always important in my family, but I didn't think of it as a vocation until a later point in life.
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When students leave college, they are like children who know nothing about the problems of life, and don't have a political stance.
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You gotta have life your way. If you ain't losing your mind, you ain't partying right.
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When people talk about the impact of mobile dating, everyone focuses on real-time meeting - this idea that my pocket will vibrate every time a hot girl walks by. That's important. But it's not transformative.
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If you are a kid, reading is really important stuff.
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When people connect to my work, it makes me feel great. A lot of that stuff is really deep, and when I play something and people feel what I feel, and use it in important situations in their lives, like at weddings or funerals, that's so powerful. It means I can connect with them on an important level.
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I am less comfortable saying I am a jeweller and more comfortable saying I am a story teller.
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Every kid has a laptop; everyone can make music, so in order to stand out, I think it's important to find that sonic identity, I think my sonic identity - and mine is finding these weird sounds that may not necessarily sound that musical, and make them sound musical.
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Home, nowadays, is a place where part of the family waits till the rest of the family brings the car back.
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I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.
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Beauty is in the character of a person. It's about having an interesting face and about what's inside. Anyone can take a good picture.
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I think that anything that you do, any accomplishment that you make, you have to work for. And I've worked very hard in the last ten years of my life, definitely, and I can tell you that hard work pays off. It's not just a cliche.
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I wanted to be an actor when I saw the movie 'Die Hard.' I saw Bruce Willis shooting guns and blowing stuff up, and I thought, 'I wanna do that.' It really had nothing to do with acting; I just wanted a job that allowed me to do fun, bigger-than-life stuff.
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It is important to keep the filmmakers interested in you so they can offer you everything and anything. We actors are not given work on the basis of audience poll; the filmmaker will cast you after they see and like your work. It is essential to do different kind of films and not get typecast.
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New experiences give you new perspectives on life.
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Hitler was highly secretive - not least about his personal life, his background, and his family.
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With the '39 Clues,' we were making history jump out of the page for the readers, so they don't know they're learning. The kids can't put the books down - it's so exciting.
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Professor Flitwick had dried himself off and set Seamus lines ("I am a wizard not a baboon brandishing a stick")
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My next goal is for Shenzhen to become the model of environmentally-friendly and sustainable development.
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My generation has left the globe in a mess.
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It was very important to me to be with a woman who is better than me at some things. You want someone who brings new, interesting things into your life.
