Arik Roper Quotes
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.
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When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.
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There's nothing unnatural in creation.
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In 20 years I want to look back and see a collection of crazy characters that I made - a menagerie.
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We should not have drug laws or a court system that disproportionately punishes the black community.
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
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We do take pride in how we look, but it's really just like, take a couple minutes, and you're ready to go.
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Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.
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An expectation is a future object, recognised as belonging to me.
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Since Sandy Hook, I have sat back as a father and been mesmerized by the inability of the federal government to do anything substantively on gun safety.
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What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.
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Anybody who has spent time with the networks - in fact, you don't even have to spend time with the networks, all you have to do is just watch primetime TV - and you think, 'What the hell are they doing? I could run the network better.' And I think everybody feels that way.
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There are three or four places in the country where people think of fashion: One is L.A., obviously. Another is New York. And I think Atlanta has to be in the top five cities where fashion is very big.
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I first thought about becoming a writer after the age of 30, which is rather late, I'd say. In my 20s, I wasn't especially good at anything, and I didn't have a lot of experiences. I was just a young woman without a good job.
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Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.
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Do not be deluded into believing that the titular heads of the networks control what appears on their networks. They all have better taste. All are responsible to stockholders, and in my experience all are honorable men. But they must schedule what they can sell in the public market.
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I don't feel special … I was just full of energy and loved to learn.
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You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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Be humble and grateful for what you have and the universe will reward your gratitude.
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My process differs... my process for a Richard Linklater film is very different than a process for Training Day.
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You know, differentiating between training and matches. If they are all matches it becomes very natural to shoot them, although Dan thinks I should shoot more of them. I think I shoot plenty of them.
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I loved music and art, combining the two seemed like a natural match.
