Kimberly Michelle Pate (K.Michelle) Quotes
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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The problem of the world today is the people talk on and on about democracy, freedom, justice. But I don't give a damn about democracy if I am worried about survival.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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Some people are used to having things done for them by her parents, I am not. I can do it myself.
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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When the Islamic revolution began in 1979 under the leadership of Ayatollah Khomeini, it aroused considerable admiration in the Arab street. It presented a model of organised popular action that deposed one of the region's most tyrannical regimes. The people of the region discerned in this revolution new hope for freedom and change.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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You have to find something there that relates to the characters and reality on some level.
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The biggest rival I had in my career was me. I couldn't control Arnold Palmer, Gary Player, Tom Watson or Lee Trevino. The only person I could control was me.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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I believe you can achieve anything if you work hard enough to get it.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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It's important to be able to keep things fresh, no matter what age you are, or how many years you've been in the industry.
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You can't be afraid to put out a fire if you're a fireman. You can't be afraid to be a police officer and carry a gun if you're afraid to get up and go out there. So you've got to put that fear to the side and go out in faith to overcome that.
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Had I been older - maybe 25 or 30 - I would have never tried half the things I did because I would have rationalized everything and never did it.
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The final words of a domestic bully: If you leave me now furious angels will descend upon you and bring you back to me.
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You really only know when you know little. Doubt grows with knowledge.
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It's just so cool when you meet people who are different than you are. That can give you a different perspective, a viewpoint on life, or inspire you. I mean, what would the world be like if we were all the same? I think it would be very boring.
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