Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Quotes
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Some people's personalities are so compelling that they command attention.
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Some of the stuff that Wilmer wears is bad. And Debra Jo.
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We've been probably to some degree too successful.
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A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.
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There are some seminal things that happened in the '70s for me: Billy Joel and Jackson 5.
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Some weasel took the cork out of my lunch.
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Some actors don't even read the stage directions at all.
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I like a man with some extra padding.
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In some countries, women aren't allowed to wear a swimsuit.
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To be intellectual does not require one to be alienated and oppositional.
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The horses are all characters, all personalities. Some you get along with, some you don't, some might take a bit longer.
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It is only by drawing often, drawing everything, drawing incessantly, that one fine day you discover to your surprise that you have rendered something in its true character.
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If I don't direct a movie at some point, I've failed personally.
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In some countries, no one knows who Idris Elba is.
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I've met some incredible people who I really admire.
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Recently I've been doing risottos. Some of them have been amazing. Some of them, not all of them.
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Some things in literature are inexplicable.
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For some critics we might be uncool on account of our popularity.
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Almost every truly creative being alienated & expatriated in his own country.
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Breakfast without orange juice is like a day without sunshine.
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I do not make films which are prescriptive, and I do not make films that are conclusive. You do not walk out of my films with a clear feeling about what is right and wrong. They're ambivalent. You walk away with work to do. My films are a sort of investigation. They ask questions . . .. Sometimes I hear that some Hollywood studio is interested in me. Then they discover that this is the guy who works with no script, that there is no casting discussion, no interference, that I have the final cut, and that does it.
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If I'm feeling desperate, I'll go out image-hunting. I'll go to news agents and stand at the rack flicking through magazines or go to second-hand bookshops. And then, bit by bit, like concrete poetry, I start to realise that I am drawn to particular things, and then I start wondering why that is.
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You can't ask your pharmacist to stock larger quantities of potassium nitrate because you want to make a bigger rocket.
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I totally alienated some reporters as I retreated.
