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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I do not know how to teach philosophy without becoming a disturber of established religion.
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I was putting middleweights, Light heavy's, heavies and Super Heavy's to sleep. And it got to a point where no one would fight me, so I retired. I will never box again because I went 2 years and no one would fight me at all, zero. That's when I started training fighters.
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The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.
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Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.
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Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.
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You make yourself do the physical aspects for a Christopher Nolan film!
