Alonzo King Quotes
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I went into acting as psychotherapy, and it's still a work in progress.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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The thing about the Islamic situation is we don't have a church. We don't have an ordained priesthood, which makes it a little complicated. But we do have a tradition of scholarship, and rules of scholarship. It's very much like any field of knowledge.
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I went to a girls' school, and it was awful. The combination of my teenage anger and their jealousy meant I was always getting into fights. There was a lot of pulling of hair and scratching of faces and rolling around on the floor.
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When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
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I'd say when it comes to being who you are, just don't be afraid to try things.
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There are a couple of things in there if we're constraining this discussion to horror here.
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It's been a dream for me since I was six years old to go to the Olympic Games and to finally have that dream realised is something massive for me.
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When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand.
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In my early twenties, that's when I really began to write. Before that, I was too busy working, keeping myself going.
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The Occupy Wall Street project feels like a burning ember that might light the torch of justice and inflame our longing for freedom.
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There are a lot of recurring themes that I resonated with when I read 'A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.'
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Fame is really strange. One day you're not famous, and then the next day you are, and the odd thing is that you know intellectually that nothing in the world is different. What mattered to you yesterday are the same things that matter today, and the rules all still apply - yet everyone looks at you differently.
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The crowd is just as important as the group. It takes everything to make it work.
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Really, to me, a really good evening would be a comedian, followed by a band, followed by a really good DJ.
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Romanticism is not just about being in a fixed state of endless beauty, because you can't live like that or live on that, that's what I've learnt.
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People think that at the end of the day a man is the only answer. Actually, a fulfilling job is better for me.
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You can have a five-page speech, and if the camera's not looking at you, you're not there.
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I haven't stopped playing. If you play all the time, then your chops are up and you tend to grow.
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It's very important that you never depend on money to fulfill your creative vision. If you do that, you're doomed to fail.
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One of the hardest tricks that I had to learn was saying the word 'no.'
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We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
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The artistic path is a fearless occupation.
