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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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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What I love is getting polarized opinions.
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The future peopling of Mars is much more than a scientific endeavor. It is a step of historic and spiritual importance for the human race.
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Southern law enforcement people were even worse: the descendants of the paddyrollers and overseers who’d made their living grinding her kind into fertilizer in the cotton fields of slavery.
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And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most.
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Boys get unfairly labeled as morally defective, hyperactive, undisciplined, or 'problem children,' when quite often the problem is not with the boys but with the families, extended families, or social environments, which do not understand their specific needs as human beings and as boys.
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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.
