Raheem DeVaughn Quotes
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Women are blessed with energy - a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.
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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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I'm not really into weight training.
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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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Comic books are a big passion of mine.
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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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I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.
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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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It's funny: I don't know if she babysat, but I spent time with Judy Blume when I was little.
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My parents were in the book business, my brothers still run the Dutton bookstores in Los Angeles, and I've been interested in editing books and journals all of my life.
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She was made up of more, too. She was the books she read in the library. She was the flower in the brown bowl. Part of her life was made from the tree growing rankly in the yard. She was the bitter quarrels she had with her brother whom she loved dearly. She was Katie's secret, despairing weeping. She was the shame of her father stumbling home drunk. She was all of these things and of something more...It was what God or whatever is His equivalent puts into each soul that is given life - the one different thing such as that which makes no two fingerprints on the face of the earth alike.
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If the weather's nice, I like to be outside exercising, but when it's colder, I'm a real homebody and I catch up on my reading.
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I've always been hands on with my music and my movement.
