Larry Holmes Quotes
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If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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Anyone can wear any color. The question is about finding the right shade. There is a momentary trend to dark colors because when the financials are not that great, people go for black, navy and grey.
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When you're making movies you've got to get obsessive.
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If you're famous, you're not free.
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It's called talent. I just have it. I can't explain it. You either have it or you don't.
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For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
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But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
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The economic dynamic in Zimbabwe is perversely robust: while ordinary people suffer, black-market dealers and people with foreign bank accounts prosper, making them powerful stakeholders in the perpetuation of devastating economic policies.
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There's nothing worse than a director who feels more like a cop than a comrade, so I try to never give orders or create an environment where it's 'my way or the highway,' because actually allowing talented people to bring their originality and insight always brings more depth and complexity than if everyone has to do what you tell them to!
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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Poor countries are poor because they are wasting their resources.
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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
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It's not enough to attend church and pray every Sunday; you have to act.
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You have to always physicalize, when you do animation recording. Otherwise, you won't get the performance right.
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At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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Bootworks' Black Box Theatre has a maximum seating capacity of two - as long as one of you is happy to sit on the other's lap.
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There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They has got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt.
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For me the music community was always like a model for what could be. The way people would play together, just harmony and being - old guys and young guys, black guys and white guys. It was setting an example for what the rest of us could be.
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I'm not at all an active feminist. On the contrary, I'm a bourgeois. I love family life, I love doing the same thing every day.
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I had two experiences with very close friends of mine who experienced aphasia, the loss of language. It shocked me.
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It is fun to see a comedy in which every single joke hasn't been packed into the trailer.
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It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.
