Zach Braff Quotes
You always see actors complaining about being typecast and ruining their career. Really, I don't see the point in complaining. If the only role you can play well is a black dude, you're never going to get ahead in this town, and you should just accept it.
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From the day of its birth, the anomaly of slavery plagued a nation which asserted the equality of all men, and sought to derive powers of government from the consent of the governed. Within sound of the voices of those who said this lived more than half a million black slaves, forming nearly one-fifth of the population of a new nation.
W. E. B. Du Bois
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The more I go on in this career of making albums, writing songs and playing music, the more I think of each album as a movie. I really wanted to make a film, but making a film is much more expensive than making a record.
J. D. Souther
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I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.
Queen Latifah
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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
Nas
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I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.
Nancy Allen
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I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.
Nathan Lane
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If I had my time again and was able to change one thing from my career then I wouldn't have retired. I would have played for Wales longer.
Gary Speed
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I had the option of building a career in the U.S. Many of my friends who went at the time did not come back, but for me, building the family business and being with family was worth it. I became a general manager within four months, as I used my education to improve productivity and output.
Baba Kalyani
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Besides black art, there is only automation and mechanization.
Federico Garcia Lorca
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Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.
Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
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The truth is, it's not a great career move to create a readership and then, in effect, abandon them.
Dan Simmons
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I am proud of my career.
Ottmar Hitzfeld
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I think it's a lot harder for the pros to have a long career in ice dance and in pairs. It seems the singles have a little bit of a longer career.
Nancy Kerrigan
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Black Sabbath invented heavy metal, in my opinion.
Eddie Trunk
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In Paris, I met a young American person who immediately became the primary inspiration which awakened my vision and the leading influence that had directed my forces. Throughout my career as an artist, I refer to this person by the word 'Woman.'
Gaston Lachaise
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We have a vision of South Africa in which black and white shall live and work together as equals in conditions of peace and prosperity.
Oliver Tambo
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I like Jay-Z, 50 Cent and Common. But I like the underground stuff like Young Jeezy, Black Rob and Shine. I also love heavy metal like Slipknot and Pantera, It's very intense stuff.
Vanilla Ice
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I really wanted Michael Jackson to be in the first Men in Black, but he didn't want to be considered as an alien!
Barry Sonnenfeld
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I forgot he [Barack Obama] was black tonight for an hour.
Chris Matthews
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To achieve the very pinnacle of good taste, the neoclassicists wrote their plays entirely in alexandrine verse, a rarefied meter that is uniquely tailored to the French language and fits no other.
Florence King
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When Americans shoot movies they aim at the entire planet. When the French make movies, they aim at Paris.
Jean-Jacques Annaud
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In the U.K. the far Right is a stain on society and there is a cultural resistance to it.
Neil Kinnock
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Sex appeal is not on purpose.
Heather Locklear
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You always see actors complaining about being typecast and ruining their career. Really, I don't see the point in complaining. If the only role you can play well is a black dude, you're never going to get ahead in this town, and you should just accept it.
Zach Braff