Laura Vandervoort Quotes

I started doing martial arts when I was about 7, and I got my second degree black belt when I was 19. So I have my second degree black belt, but I've never used it, and I had to stop when I got 'Instant Star' because I couldn't train.

Laura Vandervoort

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• On the court, Jason Collins is not a huge basketball star, but he has already claimed his place in civil rights history as the first openly gay athlete to play in one of the four major U.S. sports leagues.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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  • Star
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• I would like - either as an actor, or producer or even director - to do something sci-fi or action-related. I like sci-fi, always have, 'Star Trek' and 'Star Wars' and all that stuff.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Action
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• I was a star in Italy, Austrailia, Germany and Japan before the American stations ever paid attention at all.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
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• I don't have an objective overview of Black Sunday.

  

  Barbara Steele
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• Black people must address itself to the causes of poverty. That's oppression in this country.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • People
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• It's an ongoing joke that a black man is always the first one to get killed in movies.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Man
  • Black
  • Movies

• Black people were very angry with me for writing the book. A lot of people didn't believe me, or didn't want to believe me, and that used to really bother me. It was a very painful and difficult time.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • People
  • Time
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• Major film stars tend to do a film and then have a couple of months off. I'm not a major film star; I'm a jobbing actor.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Star
  • Couple
  • Actor

• So now I feel I'm lucky in the respect that I can sort of pick a little more carefully, which is tricky because as a black actress, there aren't that many roles to pick from.

  

  Rachel True
  • Black
  • Respect
  • Lucky

• There are ogres and black beasts out there; you have to be constantly on guard.

  

  Ted Knight
  • Black
  • You
  • Guard

• I had a very famous trainer tell me once, 'You can usually train a wild animal but never tame a wild animal, ever.' They are always going to be wild, no matter what anybody says.

  

  Jack Hanna
  • Animal
  • Famous
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• Asian players train so hard. Most of the time, on Monday mornings, the only people you see on the range are Asians. I mean, only see Asians.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • People
  • Time
  • Train

• 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.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Star

• I am a bit sickie happy. I am prone to black clouds too, but... I am embarrassed about them. It's like: 'My diamond shoes are too tight. My money clip doesn't fit all my fifties.' I mean - really. Shut up.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Up
  • Money
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• In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. There's so much more to the story.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Book
  • History
  • Black

• I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.

  

  J. Cole
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Myself

• There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human cruelty. I'm talking about whole species becoming extinct, asteroids hitting planets, black holes gobbling up stars.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Up
  • Time
  • Black

• If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

  

  Jodi Picoult
  • She
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• We're looking at a story we want to call "Am I Black enough for you?" That's that whole question of who determines what "Black enough" is. Is it color? And if it's color, then are you telling me that Clarence Thomas is Blacker than Louis Farrakhan? If it's not color then what's the line that determines whether you are?

  

  Ed Gordon
  • Black
  • Color
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• We should begin to remind people they are always after your money and if you are on something around average earnings you really don't have that spare capacity to pay for all these follies that Labour keep spending their money on.

  

  John Redwood
  • People
  • Money

• I wasn't a big star in the school plays or anything.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • School
  • Star
  • Big

• I have tried to write soundtracks, and the main problem with those was that the directors often had in their minds a much stronger sense of what they wanted to hear, than what I was willing to give them, and I guess there was no way to say, "Well why don't you write your scene around my music?" Because that's just cocky and awful.

  

  Zach Condon
  • Music
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  • Why

• I started doing martial arts when I was about 7, and I got my second degree black belt when I was 19. So I have my second degree black belt, but I've never used it, and I had to stop when I got 'Instant Star' because I couldn't train.

  

  Laura Vandervoort
  • Black
  • Stop
  • Star