Laurence Fishburne Quotes
It's always a collective group of people coming together to oppose those things which are fundamentally contrary to our basic humanity.
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I collect handkerchiefs. I know that's sort of old-timey, but my mom started the collection for me, and now I have a bunch. Basically, I have a myriad of beautiful handkerchiefs, and I carry them like a grandmother in my purse. And I opt for hankies in any situation.
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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The experience of being in space didn't change my perspective of myself or of the planet or of life. I had no spiritual experience.
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Life does not owe me a shred.
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I'm so tired of stories starting, 'Maud Jones was walking her dog down Broadway.' You've got to go over to the back page somewhere to finally find out the damn dog was run over by a truck. Get the thing told, for heaven's sake. Everybody doesn't have to be an O. Henry.
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I get some heat for what English people call 'overproduction.' I don't think my older stuff was overproduced, but I do think that sound has dated.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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In all my movies, be it 'Page 3', 'Chandni Bar' or 'Corporate,' I have tried to depict honesty and reality.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.
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Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don't get to express myself creatively through my official duties.
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No two wars are identical.
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I've always wanted to be my own person and stand by the things I believe in and I thought I might lose that independence if I ran for political office.
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For commercial customers, we have invested in specialist mobile-first sales capabilities, and we are building out our device-selling channel.
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'Art is not like other culture because its success is not made by its audience. The public fill concert halls and cinemas every day, we read novels by the millions, and buy records by the billions. 'We the people' affect the making and quality of most of our culture, but not our art.'
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By the end, you should be inside your character, actually operating from within somebody else, and knowing him pretty well, as that person knows himself or herself. You're sort of a predator, an invader of people.
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A guy like Bruce Lee, I've always been a fan. How he used to be able to move and be so quick. You look at some of the exercises that he did, and it was all majority free weight, like standing on your hands. That works every muscle. Everything is firing.
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It's always a collective group of people coming together to oppose those things which are fundamentally contrary to our basic humanity.
