Delbert McClinton Quotes
Every generation thinks their music is the ultimate. But there's great stuff from every generation.
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At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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I never felt popular as a child and never had best friends.
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I think that for a child to be in a household... with a situation where the parents are not married, as in being one man and one woman, is not the best household for a child.
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I want to be judged by who I am, not by a relationship.
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Some of my books sort of have a provocative take. Sometimes you find interesting things about characters that show they weren't necessarily the way people usually see them. It can make for lively conversations, but that's great. Spark a little controversy, get people to think about it. That's what it's all about.
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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I've done a lot of Super Bowls and appeared in a lot of big, big events and places and the Masters and what have you, but there was nothing as intimidating as speaking with Billy Graham.
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
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My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
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I had heard about how people struggle and how hard it is to get into acting. But I did not care because it's something I love.
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It's just this little comedy about this group of guys, and their local hangout is a pool hall, and it's starting to get taken over by this big corporate, evil kind of guy. And it's just about them trying to save the day and their little pool hall in the process of it all. It's called 'Think Tank.'
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Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
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I consider myself absolutely a character actor, and that's what I want as a career. I don't need to be the lead star or any of that, as long as I'm doing stuff that I'm proud of, really.
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I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs.
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I was never a monist - always a diversitarian.
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Let no man posture as an advocate of peace if he proposes or supports any social system that initiates the use of force against individual men, in any form.
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When I was younger, I was addicted to the idea of becoming a rapper.
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I can explain that shot. Arnold moved his wallet to the other pocket.
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People always had something to say about the fact I was odd looking, bigger than other people, that I was awkward. When I discovered punk, I bought into it. That look, combined with being fat, made me even less of what people thought a young woman should be.
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For me, one of the hallmarks of a really great book is that I'm seeing it in my head while I'm reading.
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Hip-hop is more than music, it's a culture. It's bigger than hit songs.
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In sooth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me, you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn.
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You move around at Fox depending on where they need you. That's what team players do. You pitch in. You know, you make it work.
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Every generation thinks their music is the ultimate. But there's great stuff from every generation.
