Isaiah Thomas Quotes
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After the success of my first album and the success of 'Flow Joe' kind of faded, I was struggling to make some money and make ends meet.
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I firmly believe that one of the best kept secrets to soft and glowing skin is moisturisation.
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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I just cannot imagine why anyone would want to be really famous. You go to a restaurant and people are pointing at you and they talk about you and they whisper and it is very disconcerting; it is a very odd feeling.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?
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From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
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They're trying to kill me before I'm dead. I come to Quebec to spend some time with my family and they say I'm dead.
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To you, W. B. Yeats, good praiser, wholesome dispraiser, heavy-handed judge, open-handed helper of us all, I offer a play of my plays for every night of the week, because you like them, and because you have taught me my trade.
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At Performa in New York, there are a lot of commissions, but Manchester Festival is the only festival where everything is fully produced by the festival.
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'Luke Cage' is about a reluctant superhero who lives in the shadows in Harlem. He has to decide if he's going to step up and fight for the heart of the city and defend the people against Cornell 'Cottonmouth' Stokes, my character, who kinda wants to keep everything in order and intact. I'm the criminal element in the story.
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I think actors always find the dialogue doesn't quite fit, so you always have to play with it.
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The paths to the house I seek to make,But leave to those to come the house itself.
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Art is ..the mysterious expression of the mysterious..
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To change just because of change, that is not my idea at all.
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Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.
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Hopefully when you listen to a song, you can say, 'That's me,' or 'That's someone I know' - you relate to it in a way that's cathartic.
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I think the danger is to just look through that lens, to lose a sense of perspective and rush toward harsh regulations that are unnecessary. Some regulation will be necessary, some changes in accounting rules.
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There are only three pleasures in life pure and lasting, and all derived from inanimate things-books, pictures and the face of nature.
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My greatest gift that I have in life is basketball.
