Larry Hagman Quotes
At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything.
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I think when I first started acting there were different people who I thought, 'I want that person's career or that person's career.' And as time has gone on, it's become really clear to me what is important to me; getting the best roles, the roles that I feel are challenging and scary and that I haven't done yet.
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The 'Islam vs. the West' dialogue ceased to be about real people a long time ago.
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I will keep painting until I die.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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It is horrible to say, but I was stigmatized by being a bridal designer for a long time. I am amazed I have been able to move beyond it. I had really all but given up trying, but I did it because it was my lifelong dream.
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I still think reading something like 'Ulysses' takes a tremendous investment of time, but it repays all of it with so much interest.
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There's a picture there that people realize that, we stop helping Israel, we lose God's hand, and we're in big time trouble.
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There was a time I was no longer going to be black. I was going to be an 'intellectual.' When I was first looking around for colleges, thinking of colleges I couldn't afford to go to, I was thinking of being a philosopher. I began to understand then that much of my feelings about race were negative.
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I definitely think being a young girl, there's a time where - like when you're in middle school or when you first start liking boys - you don't really feel comfortable. You remember that time when you first got your period, or when your boobs started coming in, that you were like, 'This is weird.' You have to grow into yourself.
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I tell inmates all the time, 'Don't complain about your grind. Do your time.'
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My deceased patients have taught me over the years to believe in the glass half full, to make good use of the time we have, to be generous - that was their lesson for the Uber-mind, and it was free. 'Do that,' they said, 'and then perhaps death shall have no dominion.'
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Down time is not the name of the game.
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If I waited for inspiration every time I sat down to write a song I probably would be a plumber today.
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That was' one time when my technique absolutely deserted me, I must admit. There was a wax face that he had created himself to cover his own ugliness. I was in his clutches and I had to hit him in the face.
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Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.
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Consistency is the most overrated of all human virtues... I'm someone who changes his mind all the time.
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I have no time for women who don't support other women. It's the ultimate compliment when a woman tells you that you look good.
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Before you act, consider; when you have considered, tis fully time to act.
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You know, you only get to live life once, so there are two things that that yields. One is that there's no point in crying over spilt milk, but secondly you hate wasting time, energy, and whatever talent you've got.
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When we discover that the truth is already in us, we are all at once our original selves.
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It took me a while to learn the true meaning of patience and surrender, but I have finally accepted that healing doesn't happen on our schedule. It doesn't have a clock or a calendar.
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The history of racial violence in our country is both omnipresent and unspoken. It is a smog that surrounds us that few will admit is there.
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I know that if I'd had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn't have got anywhere. You don't take exams for acting, you take your courage.
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At that time I was making the largest salary known on television and I didn't want to see it die because those were the years paying off when I wasn't making anything.
