Jack Bowman Quotes
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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I feel at home in a lot of places, but I am truly an African-American.
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As many of you know I travel a good bit and do not get to see my friends and family as much as I would like.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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My parents live out in the middle of nowhere, in the middle of this peach orchard. It's actually Peach County, one of the largest peach-growing counties in Georgia. It's very rural, and there is nothing much going on, so I guess that's had a big influence on everything as far as just not having much to do.
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That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.
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When we talk about the minimum wage, we have to ask ourselves what it is that we owe both our workers and employers. I think clearly we owe them fairness.
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There are a lot of musicians in my life. But movies came first for me. That was my original passion.
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Small aim is a crime.
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On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
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Somehow I got the feeling at an early age that I had to do something important with my life.
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I can bear my own sorrows, but the sorrows arising from the calamities visiting Islam and Muslims have crushed me. I feel each blow delivered to the Muslim world as delivered first to my own heart.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
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Both my parents are creative. My dad did act when he was younger, but they're both very creative.
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If you take shortcuts, you get cut short.
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The one indisputable reality of dictatorship is that dissent, insult, and malevolent language do not go unpunished if it is allowed at all.
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I do not believe that it is necessarily the duty of the writer to give a voice to his community. If a writer is true to his vocation, to his or her vocation, the very process of creativity enlarges these human horizons. It provides insights, even when you're not writing, when your writing's not dealing with a concrete political situation.
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Having been in some roles that really resonated with women, I became hyper-aware of how women are represented in Hollywood.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grow without the thorn.
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Performance art can be produced in a coffee house setting.
