Gene Logsdon Quotes
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This is my favorite area in New York - the West Village is the heart of New York. I could never move somewhere else.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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I've purged myself of bitterness and anger and remained open to love.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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The only times an Afro-American who was assaulted got away has been when he had a gun and used it in self-defense.
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Every country I would go to, even if it was just on a modeling job, I would go to their markets. If I went to Morocco for 'Elle' magazine, I would be in the spice markets during my off time and just come back with a suitcase full of stuff that I really wanted to try.
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Ronald Isley is a musical genius.
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When you lose a spouse, you're a widow or widower; when you lose your parents, you're an orphan. When you lose a child, there's no word in the English language for that position, that place that you're left.
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If someone says you're a reporter and doesn't want you to anchor then you wonder why you worked so hard at it.
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Young people are this awesome, creative, hopeful untapped resource out there.
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I don't think we spend enough time in reflection and introspection. We don't know who we are as individuals in this culture anymore.
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I'm really pragmatic. That's my reality.
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There's this little box that African-American actors have to work in, in the first place, and I was able to rise above that box. I could have done a bunch of movies where I stayed as the Axel Foley or Reggie Hammond persona. But I didn't want to be doing the same thing all the time. Every now and then, you crash and burn, but that's part of it.
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Broken! Busted! Everybody has something to repair. Before buying new, let Mighty Putty fix it for you.
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Comedy is drama. I think that if your characters are feeling something that is very real, then they have to respond in a way that feels real to them, and some situations, the only response you could possibly have is to respond in a way that's so extreme that people are going to laugh.
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Once you have your practice and you have your mechanics, you must be able to go out there and trust your mechanics.
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Women do come up to me, and they tell me what they think! I've gotten great compliments on my eyes and my smile. But I don't see myself as sexy.
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I do not know why it distressed me so much to see an animal die when human death did not move me. Perhaps because they were more beautiful, and there is no corruption in them, while in the best of men there can always be found some guilt or wickedness which seems to have earned him death.
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Small is not beautiful unless small is skilled and dedicated.
