Stephen Carter Quotes
Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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I came from Yale, where you get an extracurricular degree in self-importance because you went there. When AIDS happened, I was treated like an outcast. And I don't like that feeling.
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I'm proposing a change: love thy worker-bee. Celebrate the ones who toil without complaint, play on a team, construct the hive, produce the honey... executing the plan!
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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
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One thing I love to do when I'm working out is take my watch off, take my heart strap off, and just run - not for time, not for exertion, but just to get the blood flowing.
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The musical has always been in jeopardy - until - or was in jeopardy until it was realised that it is probably the safest living theatre art form.
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A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.
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Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.
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The more faithfully you listen to the voices within you, the better you will hear what is sounding outside.
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'Great Expectations' has become one of my favorite books.
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Most of the fans of John Lennon and maybe John and Yoko are younger than me.
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The male corporate model is built on a man's greater willingness to be a slave of sorts - especially once he has to provide for children.
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I desperately want a dog, but I've been told I travel too much, and I'm not allowed to have a dog.
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Style is something very individual, very personal, and in their own unique way, I believe everyone is stylish.
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For this reason, to study English literature without some general knowledge of the relation of the Bible to that literature would be to leave one's literary education very incomplete.
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Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
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What does dating mean?
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We don't take care of our teachers and our cops and our firemen. They should be at the top of our list.
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Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.
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There was always music in our home. My mom and my dad loved music. I remember when we were kids we would have these great parties at the house with congas and bongos and African drums, and it was amazing. It wasn't until years later that I found out that they were actually Black Panther meetings.
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I take the sexy girl parts and try to give them something else and make them a character.
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This is the city that kind of formulated who I am. And, not only that, but to be black in Atlanta is one of the greatest things because you can go anywhere and feel familiar with anyone who's right next to you, from Bankhead to Buckhead.
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Even in 2012, if there's a black character in the movies or on television that's a professional, if we even hear about their backgrounds they're always 'up from the streets.
