Michael Clarke Duncan Quotes
Always wake up with a smile on your face, because a lot of people who went to sleep last night are not with us this morning.
Quotes to Explore
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I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?
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In Mississippi, you don't admit that you're gay. It's just an awkward thing down South, which is sad.
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I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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I am from Karnal, India.
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.
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Qualifying for the Olympics is probably harder than winning a medal at the Olympics.
Mandy Bujold -
When the impulses which stir us to profound emotion are integrated with the medium of expression, every interview of the soul may become art. This is contingent upon mastery of the medium.
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I love pop music, but at the same time, I'm seeking to write whatever I'm organically inclined to.
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The length of exposure (one minute in sunlight) is still too long for the portrait. It was fifteen minutes when I first began my work. Progress may continue.
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I have never refused to talk to any authorities or give them any information I had.
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I like to relax a lot the night before a race. I like having people around me. I don't like being on my own, particularly. Music helps psych you up, too.
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I went to New York University to study experimental theatre in 2006 and was there pretty consistently until 2011.
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I pay a lot of attention to box office because I understand it. TV ratings? I don't know how to interpret them, since I'm new to TV, so I'm just going to wait for somebody to tell me.
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The people I was listening to never sold a lot of records. John Lee Hooker was never on the charts, so I was never in it from a commercial point of view. Other people expected things from my records, but I never did.
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It goes back to all of us wanting to be in Hollywood. We're all dying to win an Oscar.
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The affections are like lightning: you cannot tell where they will strike till they have fallen.
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I think that I had read so much fiction that the craft itself sort of sank into me. I didn't read any 'how to' books or attend any popular-fiction-writing classes or have a critique group. For many years into my writing, I didn't even know another author. For me, a lot of reading was the best teacher.
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I don't take modern hip-hop as real. It's entertaining, it's fake, like James Bond.
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Always wake up with a smile on your face, because a lot of people who went to sleep last night are not with us this morning.
