Jonathan Coleman Quotes
Blacks essentially play the race card, when necessary as a counter to white privilege.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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I think for being not unsympathetic that their appearance may also appear, so differently it, must; similarly as with animals, which meet us in very different forms, which look somehow harmonious however all. On exactly such forms I would stand.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.
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The darkness of clubs makes me feel much more secure, and you can hide behind smoke and lights.
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College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back.
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Just because you have a learning difficulty or difference doesn't mean you aren't smart.
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I think every day we look at the mess of the chaos of the civil war in Iraq, I think every day people become more and more convinced that the war was a mistake. I think we have to learn from the mistakes of our past.
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It's taken me time to find my feet in L.A.
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Falling out of love is chiefly a matter of forgetting how charming someone is.
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If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.
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I do not favor the gag order.
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Debate is healthy and no one in this chamber - starting with me - has a monopoly on being right.
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Look, the justice system is made up of people. People have faults. It's not perfect.
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That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro.
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I find love stories satisfying when you can see the work - when you can really watch people find each other and fall in love, a little bit at a time. I like slow burns. Falling in love is so good; why would you want to rush it?
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Marriage is the torment of one, the felicity of two, the strife and enmity of three.
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Jésus a pleuré, Voltaire a souri; c’est de cette larme divine et de ce sourire humain qu’est faite la douceur de la civilisation actuelle.
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I think every writer lives for the thought that there will be a moment when somebody reads something on the page and says, "Yes!"
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Yes, I am Irish and Indian, which would be the coolest blend in the world if my parents were around to teach me how to be Irish and Indian. But they're not here and haven't been for years, so I'm not really Irish or Indian. I am a blank sky, a human solar eclipse.
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Sylvia Plath, Rumi, there's a lot of spoken word poets who do a really incredible job putting their spoken work into page poetry - that's what I strive to do.
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I think 99 percent of actors have gone through severe rejection before they ever landed a single role. I probably auditioned for 100 projects before I was cast in even the smallest role.
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If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.
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Blacks essentially play the race card, when necessary as a counter to white privilege.
