Esther Rolle Quotes
I told them the producers I couldn't compound the lie that Black fathers don't care about their children. I was proud of the family life I was able to introduce to television.
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My parents could not be more Italian.
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There are people that bring artists to me to look at it, and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.
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I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.
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The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
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I got to do a lot of good things at a young age. I really kind of knocked out my bucket list when I was really young.
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Nothing fires me up like losing. It certainly makes you want to go that extra bit.
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My memories are inside me – they're not things or a place – I can take them anywhere.
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I used to feel guilty about owning a console.
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If you look at history, at the first time hip-hop was invented, there was a Latino right there. How they got erased, I don't know how that all came about.
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I have matured a lot.
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I get up 5:30-6 every morning. I'm in the gym. I run a couple miles.
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Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
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When you get into Louisiana, it really is like a different country in a lot of ways. The plants you see are a little different, like the weeping willows and the cypress trees that come up out of the bayou. And it's steamy hot.
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It's very clear you have to engage the public and say: You have to vote no on 74, no on 75, no on 76, no on 77. Those are the issues that Arnold pushing. And those are reactionary, Republican initiatives.
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My heart is warm with friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going.
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This is something you can never erase. It leaves a scar on you.
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Are you kidding? This is crazy, man. I thought I was Mr. Pre-Televised awards.
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Kerry Washington is the most fun: she cracks me up! Everyone talks about how drop-dead gorgeous, smart, and fashionable she is, and she is all of that, but I must add she's the hugest goofball. She has the best sense of humor and lightheartedness that makes coming into work every day so delightful.
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Technology is only an enabler, which can help achieve the intention of the person who is using it.
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.
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It is hard for an athlete to standout through an email, especially when his email gets mixed in with the emails coming from recruits that think they can play somewhere they really can't. That makes filtering through recruit emails an almost impossible task.
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I told them the producers I couldn't compound the lie that Black fathers don't care about their children. I was proud of the family life I was able to introduce to television.
