Raheem DeVaughn Quotes
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Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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The way you write a screenplay is that you close your eyes and run the movie in your head and then you write it down.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
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I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence.
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Only allow yourself to think negative thoughts and/or complain about anything for three minutes, three times a day.
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Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.
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I think comedy stems from being honest, often painfully so. I hope I can achieve that perspective in my own life and also have fun.
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It seems so long ago that I played the part of the Doctor.
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What do wealthy people do with their money? They can only buy so many cars, houses, and steak dinners. So we either give it away or invest it.
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The most peaceable tribes of today were often ravagers of yesteryear and will probably again produce soldiers and murderers in the future.
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When you have somebody in a position of power show interest in you after you've kind of been down and out, that's a big boost.
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The girls grew up playing in my closet - trying on my shoes, etc. Now the tables have turned.
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I was lucky enough to meet someone when I was about 46 and had my first child when I was 48, so I got started late, but I also got all that other stuff out of the way and was at a point where I could be a consistent presence at home.
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I'm one of five sisters. I'm the younger of twins, and we're the youngest of five girls, and we've always been very close. We were pretty much a gang. I take after my mother a lot in terms of personality and character. She was very positive; always looked on the bright side of things. She had a tough time of it with my dad but did her best.
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Somebody once asked me how I found Peter Jackson, and I said: 'Well, I parted his hair, and there he was.'
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I believe that the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin are two of the greatest rock bands ever!
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I've started to really nurture a bedtime routine, which, for me, starts with caffeine-free tea, usually rooibos or jasmine tea, something soothing, very fragrant, just a reminder to get back to your senses.
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Washington was a typical American. Napoleon was a typical Frenchman, but Lincoln was a humanitarian as broad as the world. He was bigger than his country - bigger than all the Presidents together. We are still too near to his greatness,' (Leo) Tolstoy (in 1908) concluded, 'but after a few centuries more our posterity will find him considerably bigger than we do. His genius is still too strong and powerful for the common understanding, just as the sun is too hot when its light beams directly on us.' (748)
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Teams are made up of a lot of components. They're made up of hunger, they're made up of desire, they're made up of chemistry, and they're made up of emotion.
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If you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know.
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The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.
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I've always been hands on with my music and my movement.
