Edgerrin James Quotes
I just want to live like a full-time tourist, to show up at the airport, pick a destination, walk up to the counter and say, 'Do you have any first-class seats?'
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As an actor, we're unemployed a lot, so I'm familiar with the stress of trying to get a gig, and sometimes you take shows that you don't really want to do to keep the money coming in.
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There is such a thing as my kind of actor, and how well they pull off my dialogue is a very, very important part of it.
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I find playwriting really painful. I love it, or I wouldn't do it, but I don't love the theater as much as I love movies.
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I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.
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A thing's innate disposition or God-given nature does not lie; whatever this innate disposition says is the truth.
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I listen to all kinds of music, honestly.
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We have a tendency to sugar coat the Civil Rights movement by showing arm in arm and everyone singing 'Kumbaya'. We don't really always show the resistance from the government, the resistance from the status quo, from the majority to silence the movement.
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In the end, to do a good accent, you just have to be a good listener.
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Medicine also disregards national boundaries.
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The way the world is right now, we need more love.
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The poet Melvin B. Tolson once said "A civilization is judged only in its decline." That made sense to me. I would imagine the same is true for poets and tennis players.
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Thy best of rest is sleep, And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st Thy death, which is no more.
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It's time for new bands to step up because KISS and Mtley Cre, Aerosmith, The [Rolling] Stones... we're not always gonna be here. Who's gonna replace us? There's no one out there. It's sad.
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My revenge is just begun! I spread it over centuries, and time is on my side.
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Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.
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Conscience signifies that knowledge which a man hath of his own thoughts and actions; and because, if a man judgeth fairly of his actions by comparing them with the law of God, his mind will approve or condemn him; this knowledge or conscience may be both an accuser and a judge.
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It just doesn’t make any sense to do anything except what is exciting for you right now.
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A good counter needs no calculator.
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The truth needs so little rehearsal.
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Education was almost entirely a matter of luck — usually of ill-luck — in those distant days.
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I just want to live like a full-time tourist, to show up at the airport, pick a destination, walk up to the counter and say, 'Do you have any first-class seats?'
