Winston Duke Quotes
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J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
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The direction of your focus is the direction your life will move. Let yourself move toward what is good, valuable, strong and true.
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Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.
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If I can still have Hollywood and a piece of Bollywood, I will take it.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
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I developed this - I don't know, like a burning love, almost, inside of me that I just wanted to get up, and I just wanted to skate every single day and get better.
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Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
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When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
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I've never done this level of physical preparation for something. Particularly for 'Rogue One' where I was training every day and doing kung fu rehearsals on a daily basis. But that's part of the reason I wanted to do it, because it was very different from what I've done before.
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I read so many things because a colleague or a friend will post something, and I'll be able to learn a tremendous amount only because they drew attention to it. So I try to do that for others, and that's the great thing about social media. It's not always a narcissistic cesspool or waste of time.
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I see if I can make human beings look like reptiles.
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In real life, women don't enjoy being degraded and treated like objects/receptacles.
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If Truman hadn't published 'Answered Prayers' in parts, he'd have had the drive to finish it. The peacocks took it away from him.
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The goal can never be reached unless a man makes his mind strong, and firmly resolves that he must realise God in this very birth, nay, this very moment.
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I dunno. This game is getting funnier and funnier. We do everything but punch 'em in the nose and here we are all tied up in the Series. We flatten 'em by scores of 16-3, 10-0 and 12-0 and we still need one more to win. How do you figure that? Don't write this, but even if they beat us tomorrow, we're the better club.
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When … some intimation of the eternal significance of my time moves through the heart of my self, it must still battle a positivistic turn of mind and mean-spirited secularism that denies the existence of the holy.
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The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men.
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Life's scientific, but we don't know, do we? Not certainly, I mean.
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I write diverse books because the world we live in is diverse, and I want my books to reflect that truth.
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Go and do the things you can't. That is how you get to do them.
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And I think that Africa is making progress that the world needs to recognize and assist the continent to continue on that path.
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I feel I'm following my path. I'm living my truth, and my path is storytelling.
