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 came to Berlin not to visit its museums and galleries, its operas, its theaters... but for the sake of seeing and speaking with the world's greatest living man - Alexander von Humboldt.
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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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I look at life as a one-time opportunity, and you have to take pleasure in each moment, even if it is very problematic.
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Just as the wave cannot exist for itself, but is ever a part of the heaving surface of the ocean, so must I never live my life for itself, but always in the experience which is going on around me. It is an uncomfortable doctrine which the true ethics whisper into my ear. You are happy, they say; therefore you are called upon to give much.
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Soldiers, I intend to stay here, not only as long as a man remains, but as long as a piece of a man is left.
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Most people like a little sex in their novels.
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You have to free your mind to do things you wouldn't think of doing. Don't ever say no.
