John David Washington Quotes

I got introduced to Shakespeare at four years old, and I fell in love with the language.

John David Washington

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• I remember doing the sex scene in Red Rock West. I had to kiss Nic Cage and then look like I was going down on him. And he couldn't do anything - he just had to lie there.

  

  Lara Flynn Boyle
  • Remember
  • Rock
  • Sex

• When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.

  

  Gail Tsukiyama
  • Book
  • Clock
  • Finishing

• To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.

  

  Quintus Ennius
  • Crime
  • Open
  • Citizen

• I exercise five days a week at home.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Home
  • Exercise
  • Week

• I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.

  

  Wally George
  • Nation
  • Idiotic
  • Jerks

• There is this tremendous body of knowledge in the world of academia where extraordinary numbers of incredibly thoughtful people have taken the time to examine on a really profound level the way we live our lives and who we are and where we've been. That brilliant learning sometimes gets trapped in academia and never sees the light of day.

  

  Malcolm Gladwell
  • People
  • Time
  • World

• A fighter, a real strong fighter, should always look dignified and calm, and I believe that any expression of aggression is an expression of weakness. A strong person will not be nervous and will not express aggression towards his opponent. He will be confident in his abilities and his training; then he will face the fight calm and balanced.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • Believe
  • Real
  • Strong

• To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Friend

• In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Work
  • Business
  • Movie

• Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Love
  • Clothes
  • Luxury

• I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Being

• Find something that thrills you, and when you finish reading it for enjoyment, read it again line by line, paragraph by paragraph to see what you liked about it.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Reading
  • Find
  • Finish

• It will fluctuate.

  

  J. P. Morgan

• Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Truth

• A farmer is separated from a farmerBy what farmers have in common: forests,Those dark things - what the fields were to begin with.At night a fox comes out of the forest, eats his chickens.At night the deer come out of the forest, eat his crops.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • Night
  • Dark
  • Forest

• Shimrod said: 'Once I thought of you as a child in a woman’s body.'Melancthe smiled a cool smile. 'And now?''The child seems to have wandered away.'

  

  Jack Vance
  • Cool
  • Smile

• No, it doesn't affect my morale. Because life must go on. I would pick up a paper or a derogatory article and stick it in my bathroom or my desk and see it every morning. I look at it as something that has to be overcome- (On his reaction to the abuse and ridicule in the Press).

  

  Amitabh Bachchan
  • Life
  • Up
  • Morning

• The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.

  

  Alfred Bester
  • Society
  • Priority

• I am a strong believer that as one moves toward the future, the strongest and clearest way to do it is if you have a good sense of your past. You cannot have a very tall tree without deep roots.

  

  Cesar Pelli
  • Past
  • Strong
  • Moving

• I would never have thought my collection of short stories would win the Giller.

  

  Lynn Coady

• Young people are at a higher risk of homelessness than adults and, when they find themselves in crisis, are too often overlooked by hard-pressed council homelessness departments.

  

  Katharine Viner
  • People
  • Risk

• It is, then, by those shadows of the hoary Past and their fantastic silhouettes on the external screen of every religion and philosophy, that we can, by checking them as we go along, and comparing them, trace out finally the body that produced them.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Past

• Football allows the intellectual part of my brain to evolve, but it allows the emotional part to remain unchanged. It has a liberal cerebellum and a reactionary heart. And this is all I want from everything, all the time, always.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Football

• I got introduced to Shakespeare at four years old, and I fell in love with the language.

  

  John David Washington