T. S. Eliot Quotes
Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.
Quotes to Explore
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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Rarely do we stop and consider whether the most prestigious of institutions is always in our best interest.
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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Carelessness makes me cross. And unkindness.
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I'm a hybrid, and I kind of like that. Raised by African parents, growing up I lived between Burkina Faso and Stains, a suburb just outside of Paris. In Stains, I had all the cultures in the world on my doorstep, and that opens up your mind.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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I've definitely become smuttier. When I first started out, I had these aspirations: 'I'm not going to do jokes about anything crude because I'm bigger and better than that.' But then, I don't know... It makes me laugh, so I started doing it.
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Actors go inside the heads of other people and are not afraid of the complicated places you can find yourself.
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I can't wait to meet Jennifer Hudson, Tamyra Gray, George Huff, Ruben Studdard, and I love me some Clay Aiken.
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But I think we need to remember that democracy everywhere is by its nature incomplete, a work in progress.
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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Do as much as possible, and talk of yourself as little as possible.
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Actually I dance really well on the floor.
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Beware of the company you keep. See that you associate with the right type of people.
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The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.
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That a man built the biggest church in the world is not an issue, not something to be excited about. The people of Satan also have money to build a big place and worship him.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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I never really thought about myself being in really big movies at all. In fact, I always though I'd do, I don't know, smaller movies is not quite the right word, but more character-oriented, dramatic things. I took myself a little bit seriously.
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Never write when you can talk. Never talk when you can nod. And never put anything in an e-mail.
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I can talk to my dad like he's my manager, and put 'Dad' on the back burner. We've been doing it since I was 13.
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Politics is dirty, and I don't like to talk about dirty things... My conscience is clear.
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Writing every day is a way of keeping the engine running, and then something good may come out of it.
