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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Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.
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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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The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't have a strong idea of what the record was going to end up like.
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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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Laughter is the closest distance between two people.
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If you want to be a generous giver, you have to watch out for selfish takers.
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It matters not how a man dies, but how he lives. The act of dying is not of importance, it lasts so short a time.
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Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.
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We live in a world of communication - everyone gets information about everyone else. There is universal comparison and you don't just compare yourself with the people next door, you compare yourself to people all over the world and with what is being presented as the decent, proper and dignified life. It's the crime of humiliation.
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Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.
