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 passed the Bar on the first shot, But I have never practiced law.
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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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A book brings its own history to the reader.
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I know some directors get very involved in trailers and posters. Some even cut their own. I stay completely away from it. I just see my job as making a film.
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I would never complain about 'One Day' taking off, but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.
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Your destiny is to fulfill those things upon which you focus most intently. So choose to keep your focus on that which is truly magnificent, beautiful, uplifting and joyful. Your life is always moving toward something.
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Small is not beautiful unless small is skilled and dedicated.
