Winston Duke Quotes
Knowing that your sense of fashion and the culture it's connected to is valid really makes it a stronger thing for you.
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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For those unfortunate enough to experience it, long-term unemployment - now, as in the 1930s - is a tragedy. And, for society as a whole, there is the danger that the productive capacity of a significant portion of the labour force will be impaired.
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Second place is just the first place loser.
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Billy Jean King could not get credit when her husband was in law school and she was winning the Wimbledon, because he had to sign the cards. You know, you had these cases in the '70s of women who were mayors who couldn't get credit unless their husbands signed for them.
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I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
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I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am.
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Explosions are not comfortable.
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When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.
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I'm trying to go with the flow, which is not what I used to do. I used to try to micromanage my career choices.
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If I really considered myself a writer, I wouldn't be writing screenplays. I'd be writing novels.
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There was a huge, tremendous amount of disabled veterans and the Veteran's Administration just wasn't geared up for it. I know for a fact that it's getting better and better.
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I'm fascinated by male vulnerability.
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I'm a bed monster.
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I love running the floor and doing crazy dunks. I think I bring a lot of enthusiasm to the team.
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When I first went out on the road with Larry Williams, there was also, like, The Coasters, The Drifters, and The Flamingos.
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Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.
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We certainly grew up and had opportunities. But it's not like our parents are aristocratic blue bloods.
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I stay away from the elf roles; I stay away from playing a leprechaun. All the roles I try to do are something that an average actor would do.
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He can provide offense, and yet he knows when he has to be relied on to play solid, physical defense.
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Changing things is not easy, and I say this without any irony. It is not that someone does not want to, but because it is a hard thing to do. Take Obama, a forward-thinking man, a liberal, a democrat. Did he not pledge to shut down Guantanamo before his election? But did he do it? No, he did not. And may I ask why not? Did he not want to do it? He wanted to, I am sure he did, but it did not work out. He sincerely wanted to do it, but did not succeed, since it turned out to be very complicated.
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It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many.
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Television is altering the meaning of 'being informed' by creating a species of information that might properly be called disinformation. Disinformation does not mean false information. It means misleading information - misplaced, irrelevant, fragmented or superficial information - information that creates the illusion of knowing something, but which in fact leads one away from knowing.
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It became a habit of mine never to leave the house without a pencil in my pocket.
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Knowing that your sense of fashion and the culture it's connected to is valid really makes it a stronger thing for you.
