Henry Louis Gates Quotes
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More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.
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I'm great at a deathbed. I've never given tranquillisers or psychiatric medicine. I've given love and fun and creativity and passion and hope, and these things ease suffering.
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I've been through a lot of moments when other people thought Bitcoin was going to implode, and in those instances, I generally have seen through inaccurate coverage of it.
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I don't think about the press or the crowds or the other leaders of the race. The focus is only on myself. As soon as I see the targets, I tune them out.
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I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.
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All I can do is try to create the best show possible, and I feel we've truly done that.
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I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.
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My parents made certain I had no illusions about acting. To them, it was always just a job.
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I'm a very lucky girl.
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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.
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While watching him work on the set of the film based on my life - Patch Adams - I saw that whenever there was a stressful moment, Robin would tap into his improvisation style to lighten the mood of cast and crew.
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I know what it means to do a job... I worked in a factory. I respect people in the service industry. What irritates me more is when people aren't respectful. There's a lot of nonsense behavior, especially in a place like Hollywood. The money, the power, they create little monsters.
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Men are visual creatures.
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I took a bottle of pills. I'd been in Europe and I had a lot of absinthe and I was just drinking and drinking, trying to, you know, just shut my body down.
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I grew up with horses when I was a kid in Argentina. I like them. I respect them. I'm careful around them. You never know what they're going to do. They're endlessly interesting. I've had some good acting partners that were horses over the years.
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Well, you know, I never want to feel like I have a set plan of what I'm supposed to do. I kind of like to go script by script, and if I like the character and like the story that's why I want to do a movie.
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Catalan citizens are peaceful, European, and open-minded. We want to contribute to better international and European governance.
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When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should 'teach writing,' which I have no idea how to do and don't really believe in.
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Steaming maintains some of the aubergine flesh's texture, which doesn't happen if you cook it in any other way.
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I've worked very hard to transform my fearful delusions into loving beliefs, and I am committed to maintaining this way of being.
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I'm like a child genius, without being a child or a genius.
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The genius is making a way out of no way.
