Richard L. Evans Quotes
We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.
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I would wait in line for anything to do with 'Doctor Who.'
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We need fundamental change. In the past, national development led to people's happiness but now the link between national growth and improvement in people's lives has been severed.
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People still recognize me all the time on the street. The first thing they say when they stop me is, 'Where have you been?' The second comment they make is always, 'Oh, you've grown up.'
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That's what sets apart one actor from another, and that you can't teach. You can't give someone that. When you're working, putting a character together, or in a scene, that's where things will happen that you have to have the intuition to notice them, and to register them.
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We are all Julian Assange. Serious reporters discuss classified information every day - go to any Washington or New York dinner party where real journalists are present, and you will hear discussion of leaked or classified information. That is journalists' job in a free society.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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Speak your mind, even if your voice shakes.
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When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.
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It's good that I put my personal ego aside. My basketball ego was, 'Why we negotiating?' But my personal ego didn't take it personal. I put my personal ego aside a little bit.
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I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.
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In 1945, the world was in a shambles. American companies had no competition. So nobody really thought much about quality. Why should they? The world bought everything America produced. It was a prescription for disaster.
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There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
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I did not set out to be a poster child for anything. I saw a mountain. I wanted to climb it.
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I think vampires are a timeless powerful archetype that can tap into people's psyches.
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There's a real sense of fighting and destruction in our DNA that we don't get in touch with.
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I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.
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This is the hardest thing I've ever done. The rehab has not gone as expected.
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'Precious' is so not P.C. What I learned from doing the film is that even though I am black, I'm prejudiced. I'm prejudiced against people who are darker than me.
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No one has a corner on depression, but housewives are working on it.
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Politicians in Washington are useless.
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For all that I have kissed before, I have never felt anything like this. It is as if I have swallowed a tiny piece of the sun, its warmth and light reaching into every corner of my soul and chasing away the shadows. I surrender to that kiss - surrender to the strength and the courage and the sheer goodness of the man.
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The young need discipline and a full bookcase.
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We need the courage to start and continue what we should do, and courage to stop what we shouldn't do.
