Fionn Whitehead Quotes
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I don't think it is important to be a role model, because if you are a role model, you are pretending to be someone else.
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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I didn't think much about batting average when I was playing.
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I've done comedy most of my career, which I love, but I wanted to expand.
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The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.
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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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I don't really desire things. I prefer to spend my money on experiences, on meals or travel.
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People ask me to describe myself, but it's a very personal thing. You don't feel comfortable.
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As life grows more terrible, its literature grows more terrible.
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An actor is working steady if he's active four to six months a year.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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I believe in the spirit of equality and the spirit of this country as one of love and compassion and kindness.
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Thematically, in a lot of what I write, there's a sense of displacement, of being rooted in multiple places, and how that can tug at your identities and your wants and your goals.
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People don't really want reality. They want theater, and that's different.
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Being onstage is just a feeling that you cannot duplicate anywhere else because the energy that the audience is giving you forces you to give more energy. It's such an output and exchange of energy. You can't do that anywhere else.
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No, you will never see me on 'Dancing With the Stars.' Sorry.
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The mind must first reflect upon itself in order that it may frame a rule of Justice, and not be inclined to do to another what it would not have done to itself, nor refuse to another what it desires for itself. These two assuredly comprise the whole sphere of Justice.
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I never ever Google myself. That way madness lies.
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In sixth grade, my basketball team made it to the league championships. In double overtime, with three seconds left, I rebounded the ball and passed it - to the wrong team! They scored at the buzzer and we lost the game. To this day, I still have nightmares!
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I've been around Hollywood and filmmaking long enough to know that it's a tricky dangerous business when you go on camera, you got to watch yourself.
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Just imagine what would happen if your daughter was standing there. What would you do, how would you fight? So you have to join hands, you have to take each child as your daughter. Soon you will feel their sorrow and then you will feel the strength that comes out of you to protect them.
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You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
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You make yourself do the physical aspects for a Christopher Nolan film!
