William Ellery Channing Quotes
It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions , from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.
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I'm already more famous than I want to be. And yet at the same time, fame feeds your potential as a creative person. You're in a vacuum if you don't have a certain amount of fame.
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The main thing is that it's nice to see these young people - 9 to 14 years old - take the opportunity to get more involved in their health and fitness. We need more kids to be more active.
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I give all the glory to God. It's kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to Him and the blessings fall down on me.
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I've always said that acting found me. I didn't really find it.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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You see, some lawyers have the talent, have the charisma, but no discipline. They come into court unprepared, without having done their research.
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The first time I heard Adam Feeney and Chester Stone Hansen's 'Vibez,' it was used in Drake's '0-100' as a sample.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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You learn who you really are in a fight - what you're really made of. You have to face yourself and rise above your own fears and failings.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
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I can only hope that my future movies will do well.
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Culture is the intersection of people and life itself. It's how we deal with life, love, death, birth, disappointment... all of that is expressed in culture.
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There was no Groundlings or Upright Citizens Brigade where I was from. Looking back on it, I was trying to do sketch comedy in my stand-up, which is still kind of what I am doing now. To go full-circle here, it's kind of like one-man sketch.
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I can sometimes feel like I'm an aggressive man inside. I'm not going to show that on social media.
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If you have difficulties making a decision, choose the lesser of the two evils.
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Work is what saves you.
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What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
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In France, when there was a war, we fought and our ancestors fought, though many had real reason to flee the Germans.
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All our symbols have the same purpose; words are merely the symbols we use most commonly. The function of words in human thought is to stand for things which are not present to the senses, and allow the mind to manipulate them-things, concepts, ideas, everything that does not have a physical reality in front of us now.
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Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.
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I like passion in voices. I like passion in music. And I find that, sometimes with today's music, it's just so perfect - it's that high fidelity and all of the auto-tuning and all that stuff. It's too perfect for my ears.
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As far as being an actor is concerned, you have to have passion. If you're not bringing the passion of the character into the room with you, you might as well not come into the room at all.
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It feeds and grows on the blood which it sheds. The passions , from which it springs, gain strength and fury from indulgence.
