Studs Terkel Quotes
In order for us, black and white, to disenthrall ourselves from the harshest slavemaster, racism, we must disinter our buried history.... We are all the Pilgrim, setting out on this journey.
Quotes to Explore
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It's really hard for me, every day, to confront my writing. It never gets easier over time.
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I made a lot of money. I earned a lot of money with CNN and satellite and cable television. And you can't really spend large sums of money, intelligently, on buying things. So I thought the best thing I could do was put some of that money back to work - making an investment in the future of humanity.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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What you look like, whether you're Brad Pitt or Charles Laughton, is significant for actors.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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I love New York. Love it.
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Every sale has five basic obstacles: no need, no money, no hurry, no desire, no trust.
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Actors aren't all the same. They have very different skills. There are actors of intellect who are very thoughtful about everything they do... and then there are actors of instinct who don't know what they're doing until the cameras roll... My father was actually quite thoughtful about what he did, while my mother was much more instinctual.
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I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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When you meet me, I can be charming and intelligent and reasonable.
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We wanted a supporting cast that would appeal to Baby Boomers who grew up in the fifties.
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I have affected the way women are regarded, and that's important to me.
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Capri on the Amalfi Coast in Italy is my ultimate holiday destination.
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Throughout my career, even as a very young actor, people have always said to me that they would like to see my Othello. They could see something of him in me, I suppose.
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Things happen. And good things happen, and bad things happen. And I'm a person - I'm a believer that everything happens for a reason.
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I was kind of excited about going to jail the first time and I learnt some great dialogue.
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Almost all of today's rich countries used tariff protection and subsidies to develop their industries. Interestingly, Britain and the USA, the two countries that are supposed to have reached the summit of the world economy through their free-market, free-trade policy, are actually the ones that had most aggressively used protection and subsidies.
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I mix things from my Somali culture and my American side.
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Everything seems to have been turned upside-down, but in a good way.
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Pushing the boundaries of what's acceptable - to me, that's something I'm definitely interested in and want to pursue.
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There's one more thing I want to say. It's a touchy subject. Black beauty. Black sensuality. We live in a culture where the beauty of black people isn't always as celebrated as other types. I'd like to help change that if I can!
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In order for us, black and white, to disenthrall ourselves from the harshest slavemaster, racism, we must disinter our buried history.... We are all the Pilgrim, setting out on this journey.
