Jim Brown Quotes
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I had been doing summer stock every summer while I was in college. We did a showcase, like most good conservatories do - monologues and things that agents and casting directors come to see. From that I got an agent.
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Arab leaders worry more about making money from the profits they get from oil and gas that they turn the other way when Lebanon is being destroyed right next to them. Their neighbours are being murdered, but they only make calculations for their own benefit.
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On the other hand, the vast majority of all westernized countries, including every single European country along with Israel and Japan, do not offer birthright citizenship.
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Ice-T in the music has done some outrageous things.
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I seemed to have been born reading.
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A good actor always sets you straight. If you've written a false moment and thought it was probably pretty great, the actor's gonna show you when he gets to that moment. They're the great test of the validity of the material.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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In America, the stories we tell ourselves and we tell each other in fiction have to do with individualism. Every person here is the center of his or her own story. And our job as people and as characters is to find our own motivations and desires, to overcome conflicts and obstacles toward defining ourselves so that we grow and change.
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I fight for other people better than I fight for myself.
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I grew up in Albany Park in Chicago and then went to Lake View High School.
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I like to be against the odds.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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Played tennis for years. But you can't improve at tennis after you're 50. You get to be in your 40s, and suddenly you're a doubles player.
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Where I come from, it was a heresy to say you wanted to be in movies, leave alone American movies.
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I never saw movies I was in because my mom told me that would be prideful, being stuck on yourself.
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I can tell you that my family in the absolute worst of times has seen the absolute best in people. And, that has given us more strength than could ever imagine.
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It is very clear that one way to challenge insults is to submit to them.
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Just get the right syllable in the proper place.
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Here in the United States, hopefully, what we're building are not just pyramids, are not icons to one pharaoh. What we're building is a culture and a way of living together that we can look back on and say, [This] was good, was inclusive, was kind, was innovative, was able to fulfill the dreams of as many people as possible.
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My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people's.
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I begin with the young. We older ones are used up but my magnificent youngsters! Are there finer ones anywhere in the world? Look at all these men and boys! What material! With you and I, we can make a new world.
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I prefer girls who are young.
