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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The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong.
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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 really like the idea of modesty. By the time I got into music, I was already wearing the scarf all the time, and it's really personal to me, my Muslim beliefs, so I decided to keep it and find a way to work around it. I don't see it as a restriction or limitation - I can still be me and get into music and be an entertainer.
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If you've never seen an elephant ski, you've never been on acid.
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If you're an artist, you have to use everything to your advantage, even the pain.
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You look at Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Bob Seger. All they ever wanted to do was go out there and entertain, and I'm the same way.
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You make yourself do the physical aspects for a Christopher Nolan film!
