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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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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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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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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I'm very involved with all the executives at Televisa.
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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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Yes, ISIS is a threat. It's more than a nuisance. It's also in many respects criminal violence. But it isn't, in my view, a central strategic issue facing humanity.
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Intellectual neutrality is not possible in a historical world of exploitation and oppression.
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For a first-time entrepreneur, there's nothing better than being in Silicon Valley because there is so much going on, and there's such a large number of inventors, that even a B level idea or a C level idea could be nurtured and be given venture capital there.
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If I'm spending time on something, I may as well do good as opposed to average.
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We are most artistically caged.
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I've always as a performer on stage tend to sort of throw myself into the character, whatever I've written about, so it depends on how I'm writing or what I'm writing about.
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I feel I'm following my path. I'm living my truth, and my path is storytelling.
