Eriq La Salle (Erik Ki La Salle) Quotes
I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.
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I believe in the impossible because no one else does.
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Professional competitions are overrated.
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The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.
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It is always the unreadable that occurs.
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I'm not an easygoing guy as a director.
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Universities used to prepare young adults for the real world. I dare say the graduates today go in without a clue and graduate without a clue. It's time to acknowledge the college degree is not worth what it was in the past. Times are changing, and so is the way we prepare our youth to survive in a competitive world.
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I have a huge passion for animals and while retirement is a long way off, when I do I would love to do something with animals.
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For me, one of the important things about keeping vocally healthy is warming up and making sure I'm aware where my voice is at, drinking lots of water and getting plenty of sleep, and just taking care of myself with exercise and eating healthy.
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I wanna live.
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It was very clear to me I wanted to be an actor when I got out into civilian life.
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You never talk about what you want when giving money. I don't pay attention to what other people think... There shouldn't be restrictions of any kind on political contributions.
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All guys get into music because they love music and they also want to get the girls.
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Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.
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To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
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As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.
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I have always been like this. I take after my father. I'm just chill.
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If you look at that 2008 Democratic primary, there was no more formidable, unstoppable candidate - other than an incumbent President - in modern times than Hillary Clinton.
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Actually when I gave out the script, I gave it with a CD of all the music I wanted to put in the movie, and again, we never thought we'd get all that music.
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Part of my dogsbody job during the 1983 election was choosing Mum's missile-proof clothes. They had to be disposable.
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Many of my all-time favorite movies are almost entirely verbal. The entire plot of My Dinner with Andre is “Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory eat dinner.” The entire plot of Before Sunrise is “Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy walk around Vienna.” But the dialogue takes us everywhere, and as Roger Ebert notes, of My Dinner with Andre, these films may be paradoxically among the most visually stimulating in the history of the cinema...
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We do not know how to eliminate evil, but we do know how to feed some of the hungry and heal some of the infirmed.
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I am so lucky that throughout my career I've been able to play such different characters.
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Political elites look increasingly interchangeable: Blair, Brown, and Cameron have all tried to provide cover for the surrender of sovereignty to foreign investors with invocations of 'British' values, and, more opportunistically, anti-immigrant rhetoric.
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I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.
