Michael Tubbs Quotes
Growing up, I read all three of Frederick Douglass' autobiographies by the time I was 12.
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Society in the English countryside is still strangely, quaintly divided. If black comedy and a certain type of social commentary are what you want, I think English rural communities offer quite a lot of material.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer. He only is rich who can enjoy without owning; he is poor who though he has millions is covetous.
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Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
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At times as a performer they segregated us in some of theatres.
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Here's a bunch of people practising a new set of behavioural norms. Apparently it didn't work because a lot of them got sick. That's the conclusion. You don't necessarily know why it happened. But you start there.
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The heart is the best reflective thinker.
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I have the bug again. I'm expecting the response to seeing the show again on Nick to be very good, and this will set the groundwork for what I want to do.
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Five tankers-and the only time I had to put my hand in my pocket was to scratch my balls.
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Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.
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I guess the thing I would say most fervently is that your original impulse to write something is an impulse you should trust, and that if it doesn't work on the first draft, which it hardly ever does, the commitment to revising ought to be something you embrace really early. And to revise and revise and revise.
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You have to ask a lot of questions and listen to people, but eventually, you have to go by your own instincts.
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I don't like losing.
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Friends say, 'Shall we go out to dinner at 8?' I say, 'I can't, I'm a 10 A.M.-till-6:30 P.M. kind of guy.' I keep that very regular, no matter what.
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In 1967, the students at San Francisco State invited the poet Amiri Baraka to the campus for a semester. He attracted other influential black writers such as Sonia Sanchez, Ed Bullins, Eldridge Cleaver. What emerged was something we called the community communications program. That's how I got involved; I got involved in a little play.
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You know, you kind of lose some self-confidence after having kids because you'll never be the way you were. But I feel good.
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As for football in L.A., it's going to take a loooong time before another team comes here.
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Just as you can identify eras of fashion by glancing at a piece of vintage clothing, logos create and follow trends over time.
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I just start with a pencil and paper. I don't want something too trendy, too fashion-forward. I don't want to make something I consider a regular person couldn't wear with blue jeans. But I don't want to make something that other people make, either - like a skinny black suit in a shiny material that you can buy anywhere.
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Growing up, I read all three of Frederick Douglass' autobiographies by the time I was 12.
