Giancarlo Esposito Quotes
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Being nervous isn't always the worst thing for me.
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I can hardly eat meat because it has to look like something what it was not when it was alive.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I played a lot of squash for a lot of years.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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I think that being Jewish is in some ways unique because there's this conflation of race, culture and religion.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
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When in doubt, do it.
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I think it is quite untrue that it is standard journalistic practice to name the interviewer when quoting from an interview.
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'Theogony' should be read before the great Homeric epics because it gives an account of the cosmology that is taken for granted by Homer. It does for paganism what the Old Testament attempted to do for monotheism.
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Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from which you come, is not as disruptive to happiness and well-being as becoming part of a relatively fragmented culture.
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Once I was standing in line to buy a telephone and Senator Wirth was in line with me. The next day the New York Times reported that we'd both purchased telephones and what price we'd paid!
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The number one priority in life is to take care of yourself and make sure you're happy.
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Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.
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Παύροις γὰρ ἀνδρῶν ἐστι συγγενὲς τόδε,φίλον τὸν εὐτυχοῦντ' ἄνευ φθόνων σέβειν.
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Switching over to a hybrid car is one of those right things, but, unfairly or not, it still has a reputation among car enthusiasts as something you have to pedal really fast when you're on the ramp merging into traffic on the 401.
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For me, I always have to establish a reality for the character. In very actor-y terms, you just have to understand his reality.
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I work in a business environment forty hours a week, and writing is what I do to unwind. It allows me to transport myself to a happy place where I can indulge my hopes, beliefs, aspirations and fantasies. It also allows me to live and breathe a topic for eighteen months while I'm researching and writing.
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Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families.
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To be a character actor is to be open, to be a chameleon.