Rumi Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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It's one thing to get a letter from your kid at camp telling you he wants to come home. It's another to get a letter from a grown child saying they're coming back to live with you!
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.
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I got nominated for a Tony in my Broadway debut, which was fascinating and thrilling and sort of unbelievable all at the same time.
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Like all kids who want to be in action movies, I want to jump out of a speeding car, shoot guns, slide out the side in slow motion like a John Woo movie.
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Art isn't held with the same high regard as it is after success. In any country, in any language, you're a loser if you're making music until you prove otherwise.
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Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
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To me, no matter who you're casting for what role, if something's authentic, usually you can mine something good there.
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Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
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This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected. And today, whenever I find myself feeling doubtful or cynical about this possibility, what gives me the most hope is the next generation - the young people whose attitudes and beliefs and openness to change have already made history in this election.
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There is a difference between a passion and a fucking meltdown.
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I'd make a lousy cop. I'd just wear it too close to my skin and wouldn't survive. I'll stick to acting.
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I've never really been a television watcher, so I never watch comedies.
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Being the son of a filmmaker, you are aware of a career as a director. You don't think of it as just movies, but as a life.
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I write instead of going to the shrink!
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I have no interest in anyone who wants to criticise me, or doesn't like me despite never having met me.
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When I was a kid, I used to be afraid of the dark. I would stand at my door, turn the light off and dive into bed. One night, as I did that, there was this gigantic spider next to my pillow. I hit the bed and bounced straight back up When I turned the light back on, it was already gone. I could not sleep in my room for days.
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Because impudence is a vice, it does not follow that modesty is a virtue; it is built upon shame, a passion in our nature, and may be either good or bad according to the actions performed from that motive.
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My passion for service came from my parents, and my community involvement began at a very young age, when I volunteered with the local Chamber of Commerce in Lowell, MA to help revitalize our city.
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I wait with silent passion for one gesture one glance from you.
