Erik Spoelstra Quotes
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Human beings love stories because they safely show us beginnings, middles and ends.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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Skip the religion and politics, head straight to the compassion. Everything else is a distraction.
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It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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Blues is a tonic for whatever ails you. I could play the blues and then not be blue anymore.
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I've always thought of myself as a character actor, even though I've played some leading-man roles.
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I'm not looking for a challenge, necessarily. I'm looking to make a really great film.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.
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We always learn more from the losing than the winning.
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What I loved about 'Goodfellas' is that it's a film about bad behavior - but told with great energy and without judgment - but it doesn't actually shy away from the consequences of that behavior in the characters' lives, which I think is similar in 'Keep the Lights On.'
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You have to follow and honor that inner voice. I always encouraged the girls to do the same.
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There are many aspects to directing that have a romantic place in people's minds.
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I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs. People would come by on the street - you live in Time Square, you know how they do it - they would bunch up. And they would always compliment me on gospel tunes, but they would tip me when I played blues.
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Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.
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A single woman who supports herself is called a career woman, while a single man who supports himself is called a playboy…Ironically, a woman who commits and becomes financially dependent is considered more mature than a man who does not commit but is financially independent.
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How wonderful it is that no one has to wait, but can start right now to gradually change the world! How wonderful it is that everyone, great and small, can immediately help bring about justice by giving of themselves! ... You can always - always - give something, even if it's a simple act of kindness!
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Perfection of planning is a symptom of decay. During a period of exciting discovery or progress, there is no time to plan the perfect headquarters.
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While eating right is a long-term goal, eating better is something we can start today. Eating better entails small steps.
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Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
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I've seen and learned enough to keep my music fresh and spread out.
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You have to stick to your goals of progress.
