Laurence Fishburne Quotes
You can't go looking for another one of those franchises. You only ever get one of those. You get 'Stars Wars'; you get 'Indiana Jones' or get 'The Matrix.' I've had my franchise.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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I've always been interested in the history of the West, our country and particularly as it relates to the Native Americans - the original Americans.
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So many people have this idea: I want to achieve something great or be somebody great. And they neglect the step that leads to greatness. They don't honor this step at this moment because they have this idea of some future moment where they are going to be great.
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The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.
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I suppose that Heartland, Unknown Soldier and Pride and Joy represent not a quieter side but more of a serious side to my work, something I've been getting into recently.
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My favourite game is Postal because it is so politically incorrect.
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Everyone will someday be judged for what they do, and Jah is the only judge.
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In an ideal world, we would charge people a $10,000 success fee when they get married or a $5,000 success fee if they enter into a relationship with someone. Unfortunately, that's a little bit hard to track, although someday maybe we'll get around to that.
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Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.
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It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.
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Writing has never been an intentional endeavor to me. I know a lot of people have experiences and then sit down and try to sort them out through song, but whenever I sit down to write, it comes out hackneyed or overly saccharine.
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I played the Spanish guitar for eight years, like flamenco.
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Howard the Duck is my best friend.
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It seems a little self-involved to be like, 'Oh, he's hitting on me.' Maybe he's just trying to start up an innocent conversation.
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It's a humbling and amazing journey when you write a song in your bedroom, and you've got no money, and you're trying to write a song based on where you're at right at this moment.
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There are many applications for which film is going to be better, for a very long time.
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I think 'The Time Traveler's Wife' is one of the most brilliantly marketed books I have ever seen.
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At the end of the day, I'm a footballer who has played at some of the biggest football clubs in the world and played with some of the best players in the world.
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Even if you never do anything about this, you've benefited from an unjust system. You're already the winner in a game that was rigged to your advantage from the start.
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Design is the patterning and planning of any act toward a desired, foreseeable end... any attempt to separate design, to make it a thing-by-itself works, counter to the fact that design is the primary underlying matrix of life.
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What takes courage: no make - up. No make - up at all. Like The Matrix. I did the matrix and they had a rule all the characters in The Matrix, except the leads, of course, wore absolutely nothing on their face.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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You can't go looking for another one of those franchises. You only ever get one of those. You get 'Stars Wars'; you get 'Indiana Jones' or get 'The Matrix.' I've had my franchise.
