Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
I do believe that it is quite necessary for us as a people to reach back, over and down to help the less fortunate of our number.
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I have learned to be patient.
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I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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This hunger for profits causes great misery for the people.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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It's difficult losing, but it's even more difficult when you didn't make a shot. I could see the ball just didn't go your way on an out-of-bounds play or something like that, but when you're just not making them, it's frustrating.
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I don't think about records.
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Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.
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I love being on the road. I love that lifestyle, traveling city to city, rocking out and moving on to the next place.
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I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
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I don't really think in career terms.
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Sometimes, I play a round of extremely poor golf.
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Acting was merely a pastime; I wanted to make films. But theatre, ah - now that was a labour of love. Can there be anything better than performing without retakes and cuts, in front of people you can see, hearing them breathe in the darkness of the hall?
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Lots of people act well, but few people talk well. This shows that talking is the more difficult of the two.
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To back away from fear is the worst thing you can do. Fear shows.
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I do believe that it is quite necessary for us as a people to reach back, over and down to help the less fortunate of our number.
