Langston Hughes Quotes
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This is the ultimate con game - I'm having fun and people pay me to do it.
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I shouldn't say this, but I always love the sidekicks. I want to do a leading-lady role in a film - absolutely. But I find that a lot of times I get attracted to the sidekick role. They stand out a little more because they're quirkier, they're funnier, they're crazier.
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I don't think that - you know, I'm sure that there's guys that are doing it, because I'm sure in every sport there's players who want to get the edge. But I think that it's been blown overly - way more than guys are using it in our game.
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In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
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I didn't follow big box office ideas. That eventually led me to witches. It's led me to find interesting roles.
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I'm extremely determined and ambitious.
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I have always had eclectic obsessions: astrophysics, music theory, the Mongol empire and its history, and the history of the Silk Road, to name a few.
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We must continue research into new forms of energy and into more efficient use of existing energy sources.
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I love engaging in conversation with other moms because we can relate to one another, and we swap valuable insight and information.
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Unless you have a long-running series, most actors just go job to job if you're lucky to keep working. You just do a movie or a play or a TV thing, and it's over at some point.
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I have no interest in non-fiction. I don't read it and don't watch it and don't write it, other than a little journalistic column.
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Beauty is not just physical.
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I think Col. North is first a U.S. citizen and he has the same rights as you yourself do, sir.
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There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.
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My mom is incredibly stylish, and she gets it from my grandmother. I feel like I can't live up to how chic they are as women. They are great role models for aging gracefully, and that's a thing that is very key that I try to always emulate.
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The war on drugs has made government more powerful, citizens less free, and hasn't helped users or addicts.
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I went around Coimbatore quite often while I was shooting for Velayudham. It's a fascinating place with a lot of energy.
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I guess I have a certain willingness for audacity.
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Really important books to me are the classics. I try very hard to read them well - you know, especially once I got serious about writing. So, reading Tolstoy several times - 'War and Peace,' 'The Kreutzer Sonata' - all those were really important to me.
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I really haven't liked the commercialization of mountaineering, particularly of Mt. Everest. By paying $65,000, you can be conducted to the summit by a couple of good guides.
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There is no such thing as second place. Either you're first or you're nothing.
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But the character was so successful, that first one, that they wrote him again and he came in right at the end of the first year in a show called THE BOX. I was up for the Emmy for that one too.
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In America, you complain about job losses because of China, but here, we carry all of the environmental costs.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
