Carl Lewis Quotes
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
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For the traditional fantasies, a lot more of my research comes from reading rather than doing. I like my worlds to feel real, so I do a lot of world building research.
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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
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If I didn't believe in what I'm doing, I'd rather go to work in a dime store.
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War is the greatest failure of mankind.
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What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
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News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.
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I like to fight, and I think the fans want to see a good fight, too.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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Hard work makes easy reading or, at least, easier reading.
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Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.
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Right now I'm really happy with how things are going with my chess career, so I'm not thinking of doing anything else.
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Don't take any shit from anybody!
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When you're acting, you can try your own ideas and be free.
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I mowed yards with my grandpa at $10 a pop for awhile. I painted numbers on curbs. I cleaned swimming pools. I usually did all of that over the summer, and then I'd continue to do the yard part during the year as I went to school.
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My earliest recollections are of the teeming East Side where I was born. This Hester Street and its surrounding streets were the most densely populated of any city on Earth; and looking back at it, I realize what I owe to its unique and crowded humanity.
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You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.
