Vin Scully Quotes
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As a person, I'm polite - I want to please.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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People say never work with children and animals. I actually like working with Oliver Bell, and working with a rat really opens possibilities to you because you don't know how it's going to be. It's just a rat, so you can just react to this rat being a rat, if that makes sense.
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
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One of my favorite vacation memories was the Thai foot massage and Internet access salons in Bangkok, followed up by my testing cellphone coverage while wading in Provincetown Harbor on Cape Cod.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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We are all focused each and every day on doing our jobs, chief executive of our states, until the very last hour that we are in office, and certainly the president is as well.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better.
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My writing could be the most beautiful or important piece of prose, but it means nothing if it's boring, if people aren't listening or reading. I think transporting someone, putting them in a story for a few hours, taking them out of their worlds, is what I always strive to do.
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Sometimes justice is at its most merciful when it's blind.
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I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.
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One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.
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I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get that influence. You go out, you party, and it's just always there. Also, I grew up listening and loving reggae music, too.
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I'm competing with myself first, as my aim is to improve my performance in every film.
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Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
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Botox, trust me I've been tempted - but I resist! Think about what happens to your muscles - and your skin - if you're sick and don't move for a few days. It all atrophies! Plus, if you freeze a muscle in your face, other muscles have to compensate! And once you stop, what does that look like?
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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I always felt more emotionally attached to Cambodia than I did to Vietnam.
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The best advice comes from people who don't give advice.
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So many people aren't ready for Hollywood - professionally or practically.
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That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.
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You can't take anything personally in this business. Follow your dreams, but there is a lot of criticism. You have to brush it off. Everybody is looking for something different.
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I'm not a military general, a business guru, not a philosopher or author. It's only me.
