Lennie James Quotes
When I'm playing an American, I don't play Lennie with an American accent. They're American characters who look like me, but they have different voices.
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Success follows doing what you want to do. There is no other way to be successful.
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In a play, the director is God, and I'm a great arguer. Rather boringly so, I think, about trying different things.
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The American tradition of Washington and Hamilton and Madison and Lincoln and TR and Pat Buchanan is of economic nationalism - making America an independent, self-sufficient, sovereign forever country that's able to stand on its own feet.
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Don't program yourself to break down as you age with thoughts that decline is inevitable. Time may be passing for our bodies, but because they house our ageless souls, we never need to see ourselves as old and infirm.
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I'm not being secretive about anything. I just actually don't have opinions about society.
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I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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Television offered me the opportunity to do new things; I had written a lot of scripts other than scary movies. I had actually written some romantic comedies and stuff that I really wanted to try my hand at, and nobody would let me do that. Television allowed me to do anything I wanted.
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I hate to lose. It's a bad feeling, but, I mean, it kind of gets you resettled, gets you back right.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.
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The certainty that our football, the football of Spain, is recognised, that's very important to us - perhaps more important than the successes and the joy that you can create. Football hasn't always been appreciated, and luckily our football is appreciated now, at all levels of society.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.
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I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
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We have done a lot of work on cost reduction, getting ourselves lean, reducing our breakeven, reducing our fixed cost and increasing exports. All of these factors help because our export basket is not just automotive but also includes industrial products, railways and others.
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I grew up really loving old-school horror such as 'Halloween' and 'The Birds.'
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I do read licenses, and they aggravate me, but a computer isn't much good without software. When I need a product, I hold my nose and click 'agree.'
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I'll tell you God's truth: I think that this script that Neil has written - 'Odd Couple Two,' I think, is superior to the original one - to the first one.
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I have made this one dish, a salted caramel chocolate ganache tart. It's so rich. You can only have a few bites!
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.
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I think there's no question that vaccines have been absolutely critical in ridding us of the scourge of many diseases - smallpox, polio, etc. So vaccines are an invaluable medication. Like any medication, they also should be - what shall we say? - approved by a regulatory board that people can trust.
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When I'm playing an American, I don't play Lennie with an American accent. They're American characters who look like me, but they have different voices.
