Richard L. Evans Quotes
The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?
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I love when you aren't accountable to anybody or anything, and you can just be wherever you are.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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If there were only one truth, you couldn't paint a hundred canvases on the same theme.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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I ain't scared to do another dating show, but I ain't really trying to. I want to do a talk show or something. I've done enough dating on television. I'm ready to spread my wings, and go down other avenues.
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The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves as something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier.
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You cannot make peace with terrorists. The normal dividing lines between war and peace do not apply.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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The woman who purposely destroys her unborn child is guilty of murder. With us there is no nice enquiry as to its being formed or unformed.
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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I want to be a major force.
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Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.
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I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
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It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.
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Aretha Franklin was as important to the civil-rights movement as Malcolm X and Medgar Evers. Artists can choose to take on the tremendous amount of responsibility we have, or choose to ignore it.
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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Blacks in the Caribbean, Britain, Canada and sub-Saharan Africa as well as in the United States have low IQ scores relative to whites.
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You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.
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I actually didn't really start to get into the research of film until I was much older. I decided I wanted to direct a lot earlier than I started to do the research, which is really strange, but it is the case.
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I'm an old-fashioned guy.
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I've traveled all over the country for years speaking in churches, teaching the Ten Commandments. It's amazing if 2 percent of any congregation knows the Ten Commandments.
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As a fiscal conservative, I believe one of the most important roles the federal government can play in assuring that our economy remains strong is to keep our fiscal house in order.
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The interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?
