William Shakespeare Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
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I do focus my energy on music, but it's just the way that the industry works. I kind of have to take what I can get when it comes to acting and show up so they'll hire me. And music I get to do when I have time. It's not that I focus less, it's just the way it works.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
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We seem to think we have some control over this planet.
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I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.
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Just as we have two eyes and two feet, duality is part of life.
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I happen to think singing is hilarious, especially when it pops out at the wrong time.
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Dried porcini add a substantial, deep flavour to otherwise more neutral vegetables. I use them in risottos, mashed roots and winter soups.
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I learn my songs by ear.
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Polo is a great thing to do with your kids and your family - it is a great day out. And to me, horses are amazing creatures that give you this cable to Earth and put you in contact with nature.
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I will not promote other people's songs big time. I will just mention that I produced the song to get the credit I think I deserve.
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I'm part of a community that holds each other up, and it's been great to be held up too.
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I relate to women and children in women's shelters on a personal level because I've been there myself.
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When I make a commitment I stick to it.
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I have a lot of optimism about new doctors because I think it's really clear that it's a lot of hard work and no guarantee of a lot of money.
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I did something that no brown-skinned man in the movie industry ever did. I made a brown-skinned man look very romantic - a matinee idol. If you think about it, what I introduced is historical because it had never happened before, and it hasn't happened since - not on that level.
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Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety.
