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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When you have to do as much as women do, the Internet allows you to - from home - figure out a way to extend your reach and power in the world. It allows you to do what job you've done traditionally, and create aspirations by carrying on a job and using the Internet to amplify everything you're doing.
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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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Let us together create the new building of the future, which will be everything in one form: architecture and sculpture and painting.
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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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I seldom get into the mood of the story. It's acting. I go in, I act, I quit. I don't take anything away from it.
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My whole story is straight mythical. It's tangible, but it's also what life could be.
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We are professionals. We know when we're playing badly, so if you have a poor game, you work in training to put things right so form comes back.
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I don't know why Sinclair Lewis fell in love with me. He didn't get even the slightest response from me. But his letters were lovely. And the poems he wrote me were lovely. I used some of them in my book.
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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.
