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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The more I use a matrix, the easier I make it to blame someone else.
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I never consciously do any work directly influenced from any movie, unless I'm doing a parody.
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Social sharing of photos - landscapes, selfies, latte-foam art - can spark conversations and deeper engagements.
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Now that I look back on it, having retired from being a reporter, it was kind of romantic. It was a wonderful way to live one's life, just as I imagined it would be when I was 6 or 7.
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I don't much like 'Wonderwall,' but the effect that song has on people, I can't deny it.
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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.
