Russell Hornsby Quotes
The thing is, about a character, it's not about being right, it's about the truth. The truth comes from within, so you have to search as an artist for the truth.
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I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
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The security link between us and Europe is very important for European security but also for our security.
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Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves with age.
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In the end, you have to protect yourself at all times.
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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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I'm not a big texter anyway. I'm really slow at it and so I try to avoid it to avoid embarrassment, you know what I mean?
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I was impressed by the Taj Mahal. A good bit of work, well looked after, worth paying money to see.
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Hospitals are about healing.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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I remember a big meeting with the hosiery trade in Harold's ministerial room.
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In China, I had my body lit on fire. And in Russia, I took a bath in reindeer blood, which apparently had some kind of youth-enhancing elements.
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I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.
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There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
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In a way, my childhood was one long bunch of pages... I read and read and read.
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I try to catch every sentence, every word you and I say, and quickly lock all these sentences and words away in my literary storehouse because they might come in handy.
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When I left Chicago, people said, 'Careful with that Texas heat'. I'm like, 'I'm from Puerto Rico. I know heat.'
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I think any job you do is an opportunity to learn and an opportunity to explore and challenge yourself.
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If there's one person in the world with whom a chemistry read is unnecessary, it's Rachel McAdams.
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Let the world slide, let the world go;A fig for care, and a fig for woe!If I can't pay, why I can owe,And death makes equal the high and low.
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Hospice means end-of-life care. The admission ticket is a diagnosis from a doctor that you have six months or less to live.
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The thing is, about a character, it's not about being right, it's about the truth. The truth comes from within, so you have to search as an artist for the truth.
