Bert Sugar Quotes
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Jamestown changed the world in many ways, but perhaps it shaped our nation most profoundly the day Africans arrived. I can't think of a more relevant place to talk about the issues facing our community today than the place where African culture became American culture.
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I was reading my son some fables; it made for good nighttime reading. These stories were very vivid and very strange and occasionally bizarrely violent. It was a very free landscape.
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With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.
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In the Indian film industry, especially those of us who are in mainstream cinema, we invariably play a typical hero's role. More often than not, we cater to the public perception. However, there is a latent desire in most actors to do a role where you can go all out and experiment.
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I wouldn't trade a thing. Even the troubles that I had. I have become the husband and mate to my wife that I have because of what I went through, including the bad times. I wouldn't trade that.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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Tori Amos had a major influence on how I craft words in a song. Until I heard 'Little Earthquakes' all my lyrics used really obvious analogies like rain for tears.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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At first sight experience seems to bury us under a flood of external objects, pressing upon us with a sharp and importunate reality, calling us out of ourselves in a thousand forms of action.
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I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.
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I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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You're always going to have terrorism.
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When writers don't know what to do with a character, they build up the supporting cast and universe to kind of hide that fact. After a while, you can no longer see the character for the underbrush. When that happens, you need to bring out the weed-whacker to clear some of that away so you can focus on the main character.
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Acting and singing on 'One Tree Hill' was definitely one of the most incredible experiences of my life. I didn't even know I could act until I auditioned at the casting call for the part of Mia.
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I've always loved film more than theater.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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I played piano growing up. I played classical piano since I was 5, and I sang in choirs, and I sang in plays and musicals.
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I personally approve all the shoes that go into production, and I have a level of involvement with the factories that other people don't have.
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Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell.
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It is a far greater happiness to obey no one than to rule the whole world.
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It comes so soon, the moment when there is nothing left to wait for.
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The other aspect is that you become much more aware of the structural problems that pertain to that continent. You feel the need to act to try and solve them.
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It's to me one simple rule. Who imposes his will on the other man?
