Gary Dourdan Quotes
I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.
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My role is to embody the Black Opium woman - I suppose you have to be the living embodiment of all the intangible things the brand stands for.
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I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.
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I've had many a player tell me all through high school and right up until signing day that they were coming to Alabama, then they signed with somebody else.
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The highest duty of the man is not to his father, but to his wife; and for the sake of that woman he abandons all other earthly ties, should any of these happen to interfere with that relation.
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I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.
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You can't leave the thing that you are, the house that has become your biography.
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I prepare myself to fight; I prepare myself for myself.
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I do small things. I try to do good things every day.
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You come to work and you laugh all day, you go home and you feel light and there's a certain feeling when you're sitting with the audience and they leave after 90 minutes and it's just pure escapism and they're happy.
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It's hard to look inside a person to answer a question about why anybody wants to be president. I suppose a combination of ambition, ego, and a real feeling that he could make a difference and could accomplish some things. All you ever had to do for Jimmy Carter was to tell him something was impossible, and he would usually do it.
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Winners do what losers don't want to do.
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I am a self-taught guitarist. I just try to piece together passages that have some melodic value!
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I live in the present. When I finish a film, it is behind me. My reward is in my work, not in a lot of old memories.
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Too often, I've put my career and helping others ahead of my own needs.
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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There's nothing like taking two flights when you have a horrible hangover. It's bad when people can see actual alcohol seeping out of your disgusting pores.
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I suppose I have played a lot of put-upon women, but it's never bothered me. They've never been weak – they've always got steel in them.
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One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret – how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.
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As I followed my dream - stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired - I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.
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If you think about my filmography, I have never done a movie that a kid could go see, except for 'Iron Giant,' and I'm not even on the screen.
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You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
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I would never do an album with 10 songs like 'Jump Start' on it. I'll only go so far to please fans.
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Although you should never mention your premise in the dialogue of your play, the audience must know what the message is. And whatever it is, you must prove it.
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I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.
