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

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I wish I could sit back and say, 'Oh, I'm gonna wait for a Merchant-Ivory film to come my way. Or Ivory-Merchant. Whatever it's called. But you just take what's given and then, hopefully, down the road you can be more choosy and only do, say, Wayans brothers movies. That's my goal: to be more Merchant-Ivory-Wayans.
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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.
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When I'm in the midst of finishing a book, I can be working around the clock.
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To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
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I exercise five days a week at home.
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I am always the 'good guy', and I take on the idiotic jerks of the nation.
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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.
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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.
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To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad.
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In terms of the movie business, being in a 'Lord of the Rings' has given me more interesting options as work.
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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.
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I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.
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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.
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It will fluctuate.
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Truth, as ever, avoids the stranger.
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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.
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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.'
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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).
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As a society we're always so quick and able to spend money on lawyers for someone for incarceration, but we don't make the corresponding commitment to the preventative components of it.
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Excellence is a great starting point for any new organisation but also an unending journey.
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The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.
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'Our concepts of ballot-box democracy may need to be modified to produce strong governments capable of making difficult decisions.'
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Beirut is where I was born and raised.
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I got introduced to Shakespeare at four years old, and I fell in love with the language.