Jonathan Swift Quotes
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.
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I would have liked to be - indeed, I should have been - a second Rembrandt.
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I write, having seen what's happening already in my head. I see it as a movie, and I'm just writing down what's happening in front of me.
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I have to think about how to not spread myself too thin. It's a really great problem to have.
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No matter who you are, black, white, green, there's going to be things in your way, you know what I mean?
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'Saving Grace,' even though fictionally it was set in Oklahoma, we shot it right outside of L.A.
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I don't laugh out loud at comics a lot.
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I go to all these photo shoots, and each time I figure out something new about myself and what I want to wear.
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I grew up in New York.
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Elves are like trees, grounded and focused from the trunk down but graceful and agile on top.
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It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
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You are only as good as the people you dress.
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When I have really blonde hair, I usually go for a more natural look, wearing way less makeup.
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The kind of money that show business will pay you, unless you need to have shoes made of diamonds, you can actually put it in the bank and sort of be okay.
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Love at first sight is easy to understand; it's when two people have been looking at each other for a lifetime that it becomes a miracle.
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I don't like that, because there are a lot of people whose works I admire as actors or actresses, or musicians. And you know, I've been a big fan of different musicians or actors.
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'Smurfs' just seemed like a great way to represent a young father to be, guy in a marriage, work in conflict, and I was really interested in the technical CG side of things. I'd never done a movie that I thought would be so physical and yet so precise. So I was intrigued by all of that.
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My advice to young wrestlers is that your surroundings really make a difference. You want to put yourself in good, positive surroundings.
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Why did God have to make Mo'Nique a good actress? What was God thinking when he decided to give Mo'Nique acting chops. Now we have to endure Mo'Nique comedy specials.
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We are not to preach the doing of good things; good deeds are not to be preached, they are to be performed.
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When I started in the business in 1999 and 2000, we had companies that were going public in two, three or four years.
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A pleasant companion is as good as a coach.
