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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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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A designer is only as good as the star who wears her clothes.
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I learn a lot as a director from acting in other people's films and just in general.
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The mind and body are not separate units, but one integrated system. How we act and what we think, eat, and feel are all related to our health. Physicians should be capable of teaching this behavior to patients.
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I feel now, as we did then, that for an effective approach to the problem of nucleic acid biosynthesis, it was essential to understand the biosynthesis of the simple nucleotides and the coenzymes and to have these concepts and methodology well in hand.
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You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.
