Michael Ealy Quotes
You have to know your craft. I find that most people who are very, very successful know their craft and have done the research.
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I was a tomboy and didn't pay too much attention to my clothes.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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To begin with, I don't have any stage fright.
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The publishing industry is an archaic and inefficient industry.
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To get promoted, company executives need to be able to see you as one of them.
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You get steely nerves playing poker.
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I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on.
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My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
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The simple things in life make me very happy.
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There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.
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I part of this great nation because my grandfather was born here, in Cincinnati, Ohio. He took a horse, back in 1895, and ride it all the way down to Guanajuato, looking for his American dream. No penny in his pocket, only dreams in his head. And he was an immigrant coming from the States into Mexico. And he found his American dream in Mexico.
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To assume all the powers is not good for anybody. Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely. All those experiments have a bad ending.
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Philosophy was once considered science.
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I'm a really big 'Lord of the Rings' fan. I have all the extended editions.
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I was around nine when a babysitter snuck 'Who's Next' onto the turntable. The parents were gone. The windows shook. The shelves were rattling. Rock & roll. That began an exploration into music that had soul, rebellion, aggression, affection.
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I'm a writer, and I will write what I want to write.
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You give the guy an Image Award three years in a row and then turn on him like that? If that's the role they want to fulfill, they need to send a clearer message.
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Looking back, when I was Gollum, I suppose I did break the mold to a certain extent. I'm proud, and very thrilled, to be a part of that.
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I've always been able to make choices that don't embarrass me.
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I started in 1921 to write on the foundations of an approach to international trade theory that was to some extent new and for which I received the inspiration during a stroll on the popular promenade Unter den Linden in Berlin in 1920.
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I want to be around people who dream and support and do things.
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Being a mom's so empowering and incredible. I'm one of those people who believes that life brings things to you at a certain time for a certain reason, and if you just go with it, that's where the best moments come from.
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You have to know your craft. I find that most people who are very, very successful know their craft and have done the research.
