Ricky Whittle Quotes
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The achievements of an organization are the results of the combined effort of each individual.
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Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.
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I can remember the first time I ever recorded my vocals on to a beat. Cat Coore from Third World - a legendary Jamaican band - had a little demo set up at his house. I'm very good friends with his eldest son, Shiah, who plays with me now. So we were rhyming over a track by the dancehall artist Peter Metro. I've still got it somewhere.
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I never believed I was the best fighter in the world.
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Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
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One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.
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I think character is very much a product of where you live, who you are, what is happening in that time of your life, and I'm interested in those pressures, those forces. A political context, a social context, really determines if not who people are then how they treat one another and what they say, how they speak.
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I felt that a number of people might have questioned my loyalty, but I continue to be a patriotic American.
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I did some acting in high school, I knew I really liked it.
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It's not like I'm starved for company - I have a few very good lady friends - but there's only a certain amount of times a woman wants to see you and never go out for dinner.
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You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.
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I can give you a definite perhaps.
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You have to have confidence. You can't be someone who's so insecure that she's a basket case.
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I never smoked a cigarette until I was nine.
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I was probably the best that ever walked this earth. And I could take a punch. I could deliver a punch. I didn't have the hardest punch in the world but my punches were sharp and they were crisp. And if you took too many of them, you would be knocked out.
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You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins' name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn't have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.
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I'm so blessed to have such enlightened parents. It must have been very hard to watch their able-bodied son lock himself up in his old room for most of his 20s.
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'Cause when I had my child, people tried to make me feel like life was over for me, and I started to believe that.
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We believe in freedom, freedom for the people of each country to follow their destiny without external interference.
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I don't want to control anybody's mind or anybody's heart -- I just want to help free people from the concert of sex as evil instead of a gift from God.
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Being able to work on projects that I love and care about has been the greatest gift ever, and that's been a pretty recent thing in my life. But success for me at some point will probably be having a family.
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I don't look back or analyze my films. I just make them. It's for someone else to look at.
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Keenly aware of their limitations, artists often remain insecure even as their list of successes grows.
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I've never used chat-up lines; I don't have the gift of the gab.
