Winston Duke Quotes
I like to go into things, and I like to make the most bold choice to tell the particular story being told.
Quotes to Explore
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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Apparently, Daniel Craig said I'd be a great Bond. Daniel, why did you say that? Dropped me right in it! What an honor it would be, but also, what an indication of change.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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The truth is, I have more money than I'm interested in spending. Everyone in my family is taken care of.
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What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.
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That's what you want to do as an older artist - you want to reinvent, but there has to be that vein in there for why people were listening to you before in the first place.
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Let's be honest, the physical attracts me first. Then if you get to know the man's mind and soul and heart, that's icing on the cake.
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But I've sure worked at jobs where I have been under inspection.
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Southern California is a nice place, if you could cut out the show-business cancer. It just keeps spreading.
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But I'd say 'How to Make It in America' is the most accurate depiction of the New York hipster community on television for sure.
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I don't know about you, but I can never get enough David Letterman.
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Social Security is the only thing most Americans can count on to keep them out of poverty during retirement.
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My first priority is to my wife, as hers is to me, and to our child.
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Hollywood always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It's all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it's over. That's Hollywood.
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Like so many women, especially military women, I waited to have children.
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I identified in a very deep way with the individuals I was writing about because the theme that runs through this story is of extraordinary hardship and the will to overcome it.
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This is how it works You're young until you're not You love until you don't You try until you can't You laugh until you cry You cry until you laugh And everyone must breathe Until their dying breath No, this is how it works You peer inside yourself You take the things you like And try to love the things you took And then you take that love you made And stick it into some Someone else's heart Pumping someone else's blood And walking arm in arm You hope it don't get harmed But even if it does You'll just do it all again
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Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
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Drinking coffee is kinda my major hobby... the great benefit of being an actor is you have all this spare time. My ideal is just hanging out with people - I think I am innately lazy.
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Gossip is just a tool to distract people who have nothing better to do from feeling jealous of those few of us still remaining with noble hearts.
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I like to go into things, and I like to make the most bold choice to tell the particular story being told.
