Winston Duke Quotes
I would love more stories with strong characters of color who don't always fit the mold that Hollywood has created in the past.
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Obviously, I am a huge Matt Morrison fan, and I am a big Lea Michele fan because I know those guys from way back.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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I've always looked upon politics as a very boring thing. Politics never interested me as much as the people involved in it.
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My big thing is to make sure the lipsticks taste good when you kiss. And, well, so far they taste pretty darn good.
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'Miss Rumphius' has been, perhaps, the closest to my heart. There are, of course, many dissimilarities between me and Alice Rumphius, but, as I worked, she gradually seemed to become my alter ego. Perhaps she had been that right from the start.
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I think that 'Lost' is a bit of a dinosaur in terms of the type of show it is. The economics just don't support making a show this big and complicated profitable enough for a network.
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I have legendary massive breakfasts at hotels. I don't hold back. I'll get there at 7A.M. and I'll be the last out at 11 A.M., having gone up and down the buffet seven times.
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In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally.
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Whether it goes to series or stands by itself, I'm proud of what we did with it, not only from the standpoint of what it could have been, but for itself.
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I'm a creative person, so I have to stay busy.
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The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.
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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
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Smoke the pipe of peace, bury the tomahawk, and become one nation.
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John wrote with a very deep love for the human race and a concern for its future.
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A million years went by quick.
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I believe children's blessings are very powerful.
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As an actor, what I'm finding is that I really like the extremes. I think that's really fun to play with.
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Retired Americans living on Social Security, exempt from taxes because their income is modest, are not the problem.
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Reich and John Cage were pretty big influences on this record (Folie A Deux) in weird ways in that you wouldn't necessarily hear any of it - nothing ends up sounding like either of them, but I think just methodology and things like that ended up on the record in various ways.
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I've spent the past month in Washington, D.C., and it is terrific to be back in America.
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Although I like the work I've done in the past, I like what I'm writing now even more.
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Written in these walls are the stories that I can't explain.
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One girl used to call me Brownie and tell me to go back to my own country. At lunch, I'd get a bag of chips from the vending machine and eat it in the storage room so I wouldn't have to see her.
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I would love more stories with strong characters of color who don't always fit the mold that Hollywood has created in the past.
