Ed Weeks Quotes
I think the accent is what a lot of people find attractive. If you take the accent away, I'm a very troll-like individual.
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Of course people think Washington is arrogant. It is.
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I think that every so-called history book and film biography should be prefaced by the statement that what follows is the author's rendition of events and circumstances.
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Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'
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Eddie Murphy was my guy for a long time. My first exposure to 'SNL' was his 'Best Of' VHS, and I would watch it over and over again. He was one of the few people on the show to play with the live elements and engage with the audience.
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I am just doing photo shoots. It's not something that extraordinary. I'm not a great artist, I'm not writing books, I'm not a painter, and people in the streets ask me for a picture or a note, and I say, 'Why?'
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Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.
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In my work in Haiti, I've seen the hugely positive effects that happen when people come together to build something in the middle of the most desperate situations.
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I think the Mama people remember is from 'Mama's Family.' She really turned into a pretty cool character. The sketches from the 'Burnett' show, if people are old enough to remember, were written by writers who all hated their mothers.
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Create a compelling vision, one that takes people to a new place, and then translate that vision into a reality.
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I think higher education is over-regulated.
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I think female-centric films shouldn't be only about thriller or horror. Angelina Jolie has been doing all kinds of stuff.
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Traditionally with debut albums, labels insist on a face, so people know who you are.
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I wanted to make good records. But my problem is I've got a low boredom threshold, so I wanted it to look and sound different with each album, which is really tantamount to suicide, cause people lose it, they lose it - they say: 'I like that, and that's not this.'
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Traditional credentialing really doesn't have a lot of predictive value to if people will be successful.
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I've done teaching and things like that because if you're acting, you're becoming other human beings, and you need to have time to find who you are as well.
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I think I have every piece of music Bob Marley ever made.
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People give us credit only for what we ourselves believe.
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In terms of comedians, I loved, growing up, Jonathan Winters, Sid Caesar, Jackie Gleason, Phil Silvers, Carol Burnett, all those people.
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I don't plan a career. That doesn't work for me. I just have to go with my gut.
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Make decisions about the President's personal security. He can overrule you, but don't ask him to be the one to counsel caution.
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Healing requires far more of us than just the participation of our intellectual and even our emotional resources. And it certainly demands that we do more than look backwards at the dead-end archives of our past. Healing is, by definition, taking a process of disintegration of life and transforming into a process of return to life.
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Every relationship has its own language. It takes a long time to evolve and read one another. Just as it's true for people, it's also true on a national or cultural level.
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My novels are about the European reality, not about chases. You want chases, get somebody else's books.
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I think the accent is what a lot of people find attractive. If you take the accent away, I'm a very troll-like individual.
