Damon Wayans Quotes
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I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
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I had never used the prefix 'Dr.' with my name, but when I started with NASA, I had to. Otherwise, I could not get past the secretaries.
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Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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It's funny how it usually works out that I end up dying. It sort of works out, because by the time I die, I'm usually tired of working on that particular movie, so I look forward to it.
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I actually started off majoring in computer science, but I knew right away I wasn't going to stay with it. It was because I had this one professor who was the loneliest, saddest man I've ever known. He was a programmer, and I knew that I didn't want to do whatever he did.
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I won't give the credit to 'good fortune.' Whatever I have achieved is because of my hard work and passion.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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I was rubbish at school.
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Most people marry their mother. I married my father.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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Being a woman in music was fine, but when I wanted to direct, I was poking my head into a man's world.
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There are those people that eat to live and those that live to eat. I am of the latter, as many of you already know. To me, eating is an adventure.
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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The most constructive way of resolving conflicts is to avoid them.
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I don't think many people consider in their heart that they have two places that are home.
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It's getting harder as I get more known. Even though it's my break, I couldn't really go out and get drunk - because people expect you to be training and getting up early. But I'm not bothered about missing out on normal teenage things.
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When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.
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And someday when the descendants of humanity have spread from star to star, they won't tell the children about the history of Ancient Earth until they're old enough to bear it; and when they learn they'll weep to hear that such a thing as Death had ever once existed!
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My father is a Jehovah's Witness, and he raised us under a very strict hand.
