William Wilberforce Quotes
We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway.
Quotes to Explore
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Films are not the sole area in my life. Films are a passion. But it's not like I'll die if I don't get another movie. I'll grow, I'll flourish, I'll learn something new, but I'll always do something that I like. If I get the right film, I'll do it. I will not compromise for anything else.
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I enjoy all kinds of performances and take each role differently. I keep the audiences in mind.
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It's really hard for me to commit, one way or the other. I was just always creating and seeing what came out.
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I wouldn't want to be remembered as the guy who contaminated a perfectly legitimate form of protest art with money and celebrities.
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I tell my students based on my experiences in Hollywood, sure, you can always move to L.A. and try to work with the system, and people do that, but chances are if you want your story in film with characters of color, you will have to make that movie yourself. Find a way to make it yourself. Not just screenwriters, but also producers.
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'The Road' is about that fear that all parents can have. What's going to happen to your child if you're not around? It takes those concerns to an extreme. In the film, without me the boy has no food, no shelter, no resources at all.
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I have an appetite to always learn.
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Growing up, I had a very happy childhood, with two parents who are still very much together.
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I've learned the importance of loving what you do. I have also learned more patience due to the nature of the music business.
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I broke a lot of conventions. Look, I spent a long time as an actor. I spent a lot of time playing pretty ordinary arcs.
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I don't marry bandmates just to go marrying bandmates.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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We have a George Foreman grill on the bus.
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Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.
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I had done quite a bit of research about math education when I spoke before Congress in 2000 about the importance of women in mathematics. The session of Congress was all about raising more scholarships for girls in college. I told them I felt that it's too late by college.
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I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
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Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.
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I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.
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Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.
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The people of Iraq realize that a stable, successful, democratic Iraq can only come about if average Iraqis are willing to sacrifice to build it.
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Often when we realize how precious those seconds are, it's too late for them to be captured because the moment has passed. We realize too late.
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I suppose that Paderewski can play superbly, if not quite at his best, while his thoughts wander to the other end of the world, orpossibly busy themselves with a computation of the receipts as he gazes out across the auditorium. I know a great actor, a master technician, can let his thoughts play truant from the scene.
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We are too young to realize that certain things are impossible... So we will do them anyway.
