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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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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What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.
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When I was working on Eye of the Beholder, I played a character who is so aloof that my whole lifestyle became very aloof. If someone knocked on my door, there was a part of me that went into a rage, because I wanted to be isolated and alone.
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I think we've all been kind of... everyone's been hurt, everyone's felt loss, everyone has exultation, everyone has a need to be loved, or to have lost love, so when you play a character, you're pulling out those little threads and turning them up a bit.
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I don't need someone with a hot body. He can be fat or overweight and have a belly. It's very much about style and substance and humor, interest, curiosity and really being smart.
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It's amazing how people believe you if you use long words.
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When I was younger, I got bullied for wearing my hijab.
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In 'Boyz N the Hood,' every female character was three-dimensional.
