John Singleton Quotes
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I want to continue to be me and share with people.
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People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.
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You won't really get a lot of the mainstream, lovey-dovey side because that wasn't a part of my life in the beginning.
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People now realize that globalization is not only for the multi-nationals and the circulation of money.
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Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.
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I was in graduate school. I had a birth control accident and went to get the morning after pill.
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Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.
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I don't want to over-promise and under-deliver.
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I'm a big 'Firefly' fan. I'm a Nathan Fillion fan because of 'Firefly.'
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Man can never be a woman's equal in the spirit of selfless service with which nature has endowed her.
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You read a million scripts during pilot season, and most of them are not very good, so the good ones really shine.
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I'm a warrior for the middle class.
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Yoga may look peaceful and calming, but even Arnold Schwarzenegger would have trouble breathing after twenty 'surya namaskars' in a row.
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It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.
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The thing I hate most in acting is asking permission to do things. What you really want to do is say, 'This is my need; this is what's going to get me further; this is what's going to be alive. I don't ever say, 'Do you mind if...?' I just come in and do it.
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The old Dodgers were something special, but of my teammates overall, there was nobody like Pee Wee Reese for me.
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Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.
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I've always had an addictive nature.
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I've always been a girl's girl, and I've always enjoyed my girl friends' relationships, so I want the girls who follow me to feel like we're besties.
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When I first read Anne Frank's 'Diary of a Young Girl,' I saw for the first time that a girl could be a writer and that it had something to do with survival and with ethics and fighting against evil. I admired her, though her diary remained terrifying and mysterious to me. She was a character in a real fairy tale - fairy tales are brutal.
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I don't take any shorts. I don't say, 'Okay, it's good enough.' I try to get exactly what I'm hearing in my head to the tape, and I won't let it move until then.
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Friendless I can never be, for all mankind are my kindred, and I am on ill terms with no one member of my great family.
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In 'Boyz N the Hood,' every female character was three-dimensional.
