John David Washington Quotes
Football helped me with confidence that I needed. It gave me a sense of independence and earning my own money and my own keep. That's what it served. It gave me the strength to be able to deal with rejection, politics, hard work, and being introduced to pain and embracing what's uncomfortable.
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I would be too selfish if I said everyone should see my movies more than once. To say that would mean I'm just marketing my work!
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To write a good mystery you have to know where it will end before you can decide where it will begin... and I've always known where it will end.
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Obviously, we're focused on the Winter Classic.
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What is politics? Political system is equal to development politics plus political politics.
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It was in 1969, and I thought, wow, you know, I really didn't want to do a TV series. You know, I had my own act, and I was performing in Vegas and doing all of these exciting things.
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Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.
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I'm happy that all my films are different from one another.
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I like different statement jewelry, especially around the ears.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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When I first got Yves Saint Laurent Couture, I didn't know how to take off a cape. I would ask Katoucha and Dalma - the real divas of the runway - 'Can you show me?' I've never been afraid to ask for help.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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The truth is - I found myself doing these huge action-adventure movies, and um, and which are cool man. And I really love doing them. And thankfully I haven't had too much dialogue, because if I had I would have really made a mess of it. You know what I mean?
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Beijing was such a different city. There were so few cars, I could walk in the middle of the road. In the summer, the streetlamps attracted swirling bugs. I loved those bugs: crickets, praying mantis, all kinds of beetles. I also have a vivid memory of dazzling sunlight coming out of the sky.
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The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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The name of the Redskins will remain the Redskins.
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Drama happens in big cricket matches. But also in small cricket matches.
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I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
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We live in a global society, and I don't think we can talk about, quote unquote, 'American themes' anymore.
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God is not a cosmic bellboy for whom we can press a button to get things.
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Sometimes, and I hate to say it, you do feel things are asked for in the most ludicrously unrealistic fashion. The time you are expected to make things in, and the money you are expected to make them for - that is the death of creativity. Just because some things can be made very cheaply does not mean everything can be.
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Is my strike zone bigger than others? Yeah. It might be bigger than others, but I don't have a problem with it.
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My youngest son becomes an award-winning nature photographer, and I cannot resist writing poems to his pictures. My daughter loves to cook, though I do not. Yet together, we write a cookbook with fairy tales. And now a second.
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Football helped me with confidence that I needed. It gave me a sense of independence and earning my own money and my own keep. That's what it served. It gave me the strength to be able to deal with rejection, politics, hard work, and being introduced to pain and embracing what's uncomfortable.
