John David Washington Quotes
Movies are magical. It transcends a lot of hate or human faults in real life because of the fantasy of it all.
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It belongs to human nature to hate those you have injured.
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A person's life is of their own making, and I take full responsibility for mine.
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If you love things or ideas or people that contradict each other, you have to be prepared to fight for every square inch of intellectual real estate you occupy.
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I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
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I don't have any office; I can write everywhere. So, I put a piece of paper on the table, and then I travel. Literally, writing for me is like travelling. It's getting out of myself and living another life - maybe a better life.
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To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.
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His faith perhaps in some nice tenets might be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was always in the right.
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Some people are so busy learning the tricks of the trade that they never learn the trade.
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One of the most important things you can do in your life is to learn to pull back the curtain of fear so you can see it for what it really is - the enemy blowing a lot of smoke and pushing your buttons.
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It is only through such real-life daily struggles and challenges that a genuine sensitivity to human rights can be inculcated. This is a truth that is not limited to school education: it applies to all of us.
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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Most people figured I'd be in jail. I've been proving people wrong my whole life.
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Having a lot of people suddenly depending on me to get the job done was a marvelous motivator. The book and movie deals seemed to flip a switch in my head, and off I went.
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I'm getting to be a real pro at coming into things midstream and trying to catch up.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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When I was in high school I got involved in the fringe theater scene in Chicago, and I met some openly gay people. I could see that it got better, that they were happy and loved and supported. I saw with my own eyes that it got better.
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'Out' was my real breakthrough, the novel that became a hit in Japan and sold a lot of books, so it was sort of an obvious choice for being the first book to be translated into English.
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Life's there to make the most of, and that's what I do.
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Life is what happens when you're doing other things, right?
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...What I can't understand is why come here and try and change our country into the place that you've come from? And all I ask of people is come here, respect our country, respect our laws, our culture, our way of life. Be Australian, join us, enjoy this beautiful country and everything that it has to offer.
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Journalism, for me, has always been a calling. There are things that must be exposed to the light, truths that must be uncovered, stories worth risking your life for.
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I love discovering compelling new ideas and doing what I can to help spread the word about them.
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You know, James Franco is one of the most interesting figures because he has no rules. He breaks all the borders.
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Movies are magical. It transcends a lot of hate or human faults in real life because of the fantasy of it all.
