David McCleary Sheldon (Mac Lethal) Quotes
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As a black actress you've got to work doubly hard. But it doesn't ever get me to the point where I give up on myself. It just motivates me to be more prepared, focus and disciplined. That's why I care so much about doing black films and making sure that we represent and are represented correctly.
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I interviewed Johnny Knoxville once. I was kind of scared to interview him because I thought he might be a real jerk, but he was really nice, and I ripped his chest hair out.
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I had good skills, but my lack of size and speed kept me a little behind the best kids in the other sports. Golf offered a more level field. I would have rather played other sports, but golf picked me.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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I have no special talent, you know. I never took a writing course before I began to write.
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Though the S8, like all premium Samsung phones, runs Android with the basic Google suite of apps, Samsung keeps trying to duplicate Android functions with its own software. It wants to be a software platform like its rival Apple, but it uses someone else's operating system and core apps. Awkward.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
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The clever cat eats cheese and breathes down rat holes with baited breath.
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I've had two fights in my life. Both times I threw one punch, and both times I broke my hand! I really am a stranger to the world of fighting.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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I think rap music is rap music. I mean, are there heavy writing aspects of it? Absolutely. In a sense, is it poetry? Yeah. I've heard that so much, growing up in a house with poetry. But I think people like to use that as a shortcut for who's good and who's not. It's like the word 'lyrical' - 'lyrical' is the worst word in the entire world.
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Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.
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I had admired Richard Burton for years and years before I had ever worked with him. He was a great, great actor. It was a joy to get to know him as a person.
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Obama's presence opened a new field for writers, and what began as curiosity about the man himself eventually expanded into curiosity about the community he had so consciously made his home and all the old, fitfully slumbering questions he'd awakened about American identity.
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
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There's nothing more powerful to a showrunner than a truly invested writer.
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I'm greedy, but I've always watched what I eat because I want to look good. I gave up butter, cream and sugar years ago.
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Marriage is tough. I can tell my wife all day long that I love her, but it doesn't mean anything if you don't show that.
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I like storytelling, and I feel more confident as the years have gone on about my ability to do that.
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Girls learn sexiness, women teach class.
