Laurence Fishburne Quotes
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Sometimes when you do interviews, it gets twisted up.
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I'm a spiritual person and a religious person. But for me, it's all a personal thing. I'm not someone who'll say, 'This is what I believe, and you should too!' It's more of an internal, quiet, grounded, fulfilling thing for me.
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The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.
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There are really very few roles for women in films in which you can also make a living.
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I want to give my six hours of serious cricket on the ground and then take whatever the result.
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I've always had a 'Work hard, play hard' attitude to life - I still do - but sometimes you get involved in something that needs a calm, methodical approach.
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Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
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There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise.
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My grandfather had a particularly important influence on my life, even though I didn't visit him often, since he lived about three miles out of town and he died when I was six. He was remarkably curious about the world, and he read lots of books.
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My so-called bad dress-sense phase happened when I was confused - I think I was taking advice all too often, without listening to my inner voice. Add to the fact that I was a little overweight; so every wrong 'outfit' got compounded all that much.
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Even though I'm a leftist. I think the left eats its own.
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You do feel a certain obligation to shows that raise your profile like 'Downton' has. But there are definitely other exciting opportunities out there.
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I've loved musical theater ever since I was a kid. My mother's a pianist, and my grandfather was an amateur theater director and stand-up comic. And I was an only child. And I loved attention. So from an early age, my family was teaching old musical songs.
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Thank God we're going to try to continue and effectively defend our frontiers with the Border Patrol, with the Customs Department, with the Coast Guard, with the Armed Forces.
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If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.
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'We can't do anything to change the world until capitalism crumbles. In the meantime we should all go shopping to console ourselves.
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I never understood music. It seemed to me to be the maximum amount of noise conveying the minimum amount of information.
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If we are to inspire men to father it also helps to stop reflexively condemning men as afraid of commitment and address what they are afraid of. –page246.
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I had to groan a bit on the couch when my brow was mopped-as it is when you've been shot across the chest.
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I didn't want to play the wife of some guy my dad's age.
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You should know something, Miriam.... God changed our futures yesterday. There's no other explanation for what happened. And it wasn't the first God. If you ever need hlep, you might want to try the second God.
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When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right.
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Every unfulfilled aspiration of humanity in the past; all partial representation of perfect character; all sacrifices, nay, even those of idolatry, point to the fulfillment of what we want, the answer to every longing - the type of perfect humanity, the Lord Jesus Christ.
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I can't imagine not coming back to the theater. It's where I started.
