Raymond Chandler Quotes
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For me, my home is a peaceful place where I can rest, and it gives me back energy.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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My personal experience has been that in my 25 years of writing, I have not been asked to do more than four or five commercial one-shot scripts. These were performed on major national hook-ups but produced for me no immediate additional jobs or requests. One script for BBC was done around the world with an all-star cast.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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You do have to learn how to wear a kilt, and it's certainly very liberating and very freeing, but surprisingly very comfortable to wear, to ride a horse in a kilt. I was surprised by that.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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It's great to be mean, it is, it's fun.
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I don't have any style icons, but I get inspiration from my friends. My style motto is that it is better to be overdressed than underdressed.
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People come out of the mid-west and go to the Ivy League. I kind of reversed the direction.
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Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further.
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Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.
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There's this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above that box. I could have done a bunch of movies where I stayed as the Axel Foley or Reggie Hammond persona. But I didn't want to be doing the same thing all the time. Every now and then, you crash and burn, but that's part of it.
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'I can’t keep giving my will into other people hands no more, ain’t? I have to decide what I want to do for myself.' No answer. It wasn’t going to tell her.
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When a person inflates his own importance, he does not see his own sins; and his sins get bigger right along with him.
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It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.
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Eviction affects old folks and young folks, sick people and able-bodied people, white communities and African-American communities.
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I like to let my work ethic speak for itself, just things of that nature, like the way I go about practice and show these guys how to do it.
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A l lot of films I've done are essentially about women who are finding their voice, women who don't know themselves well.
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As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.
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I think about God, yes, and I wonder if there is a God. And if there is a God, will God please help me through my hard trips.
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I never understood when people go, 'Oh my gosh, it's so easy being pregnant.' No, it's hard. It's the most beautiful thing, yes, but it's hard.
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When I came out, I found I hadn't been born with the right genes. It's quite brutal. If you're beautiful and you have the right genes, then the gay scene is a place where you can be worshipped. But if you don't, it's a different ball of wax.
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She gave me a smile I could feel in my hip pocket.
