Denzel Whitaker Quotes
When I'm acting, I just want to be the character and not have to think of any film technicalities.
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President Reagan stood for conservative principles in a way that brought people together.
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Failure is success if we learn from it.
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Kevin Hart. He's the man! I like his style. He's short, so I can relate. All the stories he tells are real. I respect that, and he's just a really funny dude - great comedy instincts. To do stand-up on a stage for an hour and tell stories and make people laugh is incredible.
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Socialism is practical, in the best sense of the term; a living, vital force of inestimable value to society.
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The end of my playing career was May 28, 2017. That, for me, was an historic day. I'll carry it with me forever. It will be hard to explain to people the feelings and emotions I felt that day.
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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
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I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.
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I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
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I never participated in far-reaching political decisions, since I never belonged to the circle of the closest associates of Adolf Hitler, neither was I consulted by Adolf Hitler on general political questions, nor did I ever take part in conferences about such problems.
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I do things because I enjoy it. That used to be my downfall, but now it's the upside.
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Life isn't about the final moments, it's about the journey, it's about process. What makes 'Rocky' work as a movie is seeing him working his way up from the streets to the arena and the fight of his life. You could just show that fight, and it would be great, but seeing that journey illuminates that fight and adds profound meaning to it.
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I'm old enough to remember when the polio vaccine was still new. Also, it hadn't been that long since most people who caught pneumonia died from it. These medical breakthroughs were practically miracles.
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When the Securities & Exchange Commission settled securities-fraud charges against Richard Harriton, former chairman of the clearing subsidiary of Bear, Stearns & Co., there were smiles all around. The SEC was happy. Harriton was happy. Bear Stearns was happy.
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Well I actually do have a country house in Connecticut with a population of 3,000. Like, how small is that? I spend a lot of time there - I write up there. So I kind of have the best of both worlds and I love going up there.
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At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting.
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Every crowd has a silver lining.
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Money is not important to me. What makes me feel successful is making the people I love happy.
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Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.
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I remember when my first child was born, and I had a script that was due, and I asked the guy I was writing it for, a guy who I'm now friends with but at the time was not friend with, 'Can I have some extra time? I had a kid born.' He's like, 'No, we need it now.'
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Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.
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I try to explain to people that you get the roles that are right when they're right. If you have a nerd character but you're kind of a cool guy, you're probably not going to get the nerd part. The nerd is going to get the nerd part. You know, someone like me.
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There are relatively few science fiction or fantasy books with the main character being an old person.
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It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
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When I'm acting, I just want to be the character and not have to think of any film technicalities.
