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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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
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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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Joe and I are still very aware of the fact that we live in a country where he criticised the government and lived another day. That trumps all. To paraphrase Churchill, democracy is the worst form of government apart from all the other forms of government. You constantly have to fight for it; you have to keep your government honest.
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To be a friend means that they are always there, for the good or the bad.
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It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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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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I remember being interviewed about my first novel, 'The Colour of Memory.' They kept using the expression 'your first novel,' and I said, 'No, I object to that phrase, because this is it for me.'
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Close friends and relatives, while not meaning to do so, often handicap on through 'opinions' and sometimes though ridicule, which is meant to be humorous. Thousands of men and women carry inferiority complexes with them all through life, because some well-meaning, but ignorant person destroyed their confidence through opinions or ridicule.
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So was I once myself a swinger of birches. And so I dream of going back to be.
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People look at me, and they don't see what they think is a typical Aboriginal. I always thought I'd be the white person in a black play.
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I got introduced to Shakespeare at four years old, and I fell in love with the language.
