Kasi Lemmons Quotes
As someone who tried to be great. I don't know if one ever gets to greatness, but I've put in a good effort, and will continue to do so.
Kasi Lemmons
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Dallas is a great city, and it's worth fighting for.
Laura Miller
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My great religion is a belief in the blood, the flesh, as being wiser than the intellect. We can go wrong in our minds. But what our blood feels and believes and says, is always true. The intellect is only a bit and a bridle.
D. H. Lawrence
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One of my great all-time loves in cinema, and I've seen it three times, is Bondarchuk's 'War and Peace.' Not a lot of people may have seen that film. It was made during the Soviet era.
Baz Luhrmann
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My husband and I get along great. We're both introverts, and it's hard to make new friends.
S. E. Hinton
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I'm always like, 'Well, let's not rest on a critical acclaim or on a incredible review or on a great reception.'
Omari Hardwick
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I hate divers, like Cristiano Ronaldo, who might be the greatest athlete in the sport, but he's a big baby. If things are going well he's great, but when things are going badly it's the ref's fault, it's his teammates' fault.
Viggo Mortensen
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Acting is playing, and it is like being a big kid. Yeah, it's great. You get paid.
Olivia Colman
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The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.
Albert Einstein
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Not only do you have to put yourself in harms way in service of your country, you have to leave your families at home. It is a great sacrifice.
Fred Wilson
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The great thing about Twitter is, you get a lot back, and I read through a lot, and I want my fans to know that I do read a lot, and it's why I do respond or retweet clever posts, and I'm constantly amazed by the cleverness of people on Twitter.
Elizabeth Banks
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My long struggles as a soldier of the Chinese Revolution have forced me to realize the necessity of facing hard facts. There will be neither peace, nor hope, nor future for any of us unless we honestly aim at political, social and economic justice for all peoples of the world, great and small.
Chiang Kai-shek
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Our job is to be performers and give everybody a great night where they can forget about their problems and the world's problems, because they're always going to be there. They were there since the beginning, and they're going to be there until the end.
David Bryan
Bon Jovi
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I'm a great believer in not sitting around waiting for the right part to come around, but jumping in and building it for yourself.
Joel Edgerton
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To fail is a natural consequence of trying, To succeed takes time and prolonged effort in the face of unfriendly odds. To think it will be any other way, no matter what you do, is to invite yourself to be hurt and to limit your enthusiasm for trying again.
David Viscott
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I had a great conversation with Tom Waits, of all people.
Oscar Isaac
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In high school, I was doing my magazine 'Rookie' and a lot of writing, and I became a little less interested in the fashion world. I was approached by an agent for writing, and I said I wanted to act as well. They sent me scripts, and then I got my first Broadway play, 'This Is Our Youth'.
Tavi Gevinson
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I felt extremely uncomfortable as the focal point, in the spotlight. I really like the behind the scenes role, because all my freedom is there.
Brian Eno
Roxy Music
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As someone who tried to be great. I don't know if one ever gets to greatness, but I've put in a good effort, and will continue to do so.
Kasi Lemmons
