Reese Hoffa (Maurice Antawn Chism) Quotes
I really believe in the last name Hoffa being something powerful. You want to live your life to bring honor to that name.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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For the most part, it's a very male-dominated business. Most executives are male, so it's always sort of their vision of stuff. I'm constantly fighting against that, even when I play the wife or the girlfriend or the best friend. I always try my hardest to bring as much layering in and not make things stereotypical, but it's hard.
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But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.
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When men or women make their work their top priority and become hostile to the normal, natural needs of their children and spouse - obviously, something is wrong.
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I tell fans who ask me why I'm not doing comedy anymore that I'm a different person. I've grown and I've matured. I've made a transition to where I really want to be.
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I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.
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Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
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It was like I lived in a little suburban neighborhood in the middle of New York City because I could run around barefoot or, you know, completely independently from a very young age in the safety of this building where I knew everybody and where I had friends on every floor, and I knew the bellmen in the lobby.
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I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.
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Anjelica Huston and Kelly MacDonald are both really special. Anjelica has such a fresh point of view about acting and doesn't seem jaded at all. She seems more like a student and yet she is veteran actor who really brings it.
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I think as more people use the phones to access the Internet, they have a lot less patience for trying to find things on the search engines. That is because you need to figure a lot of things out for search to work.
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I definitely keep myself to myself; I don't really go out. If my friends want to see me, they know to come around to my house.
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Writing for a soap - writing for 25 characters day in, day out - is one of the most difficult jobs in Hollywood.
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Once you break a habit into its components, you can fiddle with the gears.
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There is no panic you can't allay, no problem you can't solve.
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If you follow the trend, you'll always be right behind it.
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Our system never treated the failure of prison as a reason not to try more prison.
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Devaluations are never easy.
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If a man begins writing at thirty, by the time he is fifty or sixty, the bulk of his work has been done. By the time he is eighty, he's got nothing more, you know?
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Now, people ask me all the time how we got four surplus budgets in a row. What new ideas did we bring to Washington? I always give a one-word answer: Arithmetic.
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Employees who believe that management is concerned about them as a whole person - not just an employee - are more productive, more satisfied, more fulfilled. Satisfied employees mean satisfied customers, which leads to profitability.
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The Red Sox believe what's written. If it's written that I should be traded, more times than not, that's what ends up happening. Look at the people who've gotten traded around here. It's not their doing.
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With stand-up, you can be as freeform as you want to be. You can say what you want, how you want, at any moment without constraint.
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I really believe in the last name Hoffa being something powerful. You want to live your life to bring honor to that name.
