Kalup Linzy Quotes
When you get a critique, people think you're criticizing them but it's really an intellectual conversation. You can't get emotionally attached.
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This creed of the desert seemed inexpressible in words, and indeed in thought.
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Good comedy is ageless.
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I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
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You know what I like? I like classic stuff. I like 'The Andy Griffith Show' – the variety of characters was so amazing to me.
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We're going to lose more species, acidify the oceans more, do damage that it will take millions of years - if not longer - to unwind. Exactly how much damage will we do? How deep will those scars run? We don't know yet. But we will turn the ship.
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Speed can't always get you wickets.
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I think all television has to be about relationships and I don't think horror for the sake of it can work unless you're able to ground it in some kind of relationship.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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The other aspect of American identity worth focusing on is the concept of America as a nation of immigrants. That certainly is a partial truth. But it is often assumed to be the total truth.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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God is the King. In him exists all legal authority.
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When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
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I've always said that the word 'genius,' especially in Hollywood, is way overused.
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I love the immediacy of those old analog machines; it's really inspiring. You just set them up to play, and they go, playing the same thing until you switch the pattern.
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Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
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Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim.
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The public saw my father right out of central casting. He looked the part, acted the part... he was the part! The real life Godfather.
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I love being a part of something so many people can relate to and enjoy.
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We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.
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I've always wanted to do a period piece.
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It's important to me to try and expose young people to the things they believe are off-limits to them. I tell them, 'There are no walls, only the ones we put up.' My advice to young people looking at my life is not to follow my footprint but to go out there and make their own.
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When you get a critique, people think you're criticizing them but it's really an intellectual conversation. You can't get emotionally attached.
