Lennie James Quotes
I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing in a film.
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In vast parts of the world, people don't eat meat.
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I did a film called 'Fire with Fire.'
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I liberate minds with my music. That's more important than liberating a few people from apartheid or whatever.
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When you grow up on a dairy farm, cows don't take a day off. So you work every day and my dad always said, 'No one can outwork you.'
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
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Floyd Mayweather is in the sport to give great performances.
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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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If you were to ask me to choose between democratic values and wealth, power, prosperity and fame, I will very easily and without any doubt choose democratic values.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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I realized that if my thoughts immediately affect my body, I should be careful about what I think. Now if I get angry, I ask myself why I feel that way. If I can find the source of my anger, I can turn that negative energy into something positive.
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Sometimes, I'm very embarrassed.
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When I was on a major label I felt obliged to say yes to every interview, tour and whatever else. The label is always telling you, 'This ain't going to last,' so I worked myself half to death. I learnt from that and I like to pace myself now.
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Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.
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I just try to be myself, whatever that is. I don't think about how I'll be remembered. I just want to be consistent over a long period of time. That's what the great players do.
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I take yoga classes, do a mile run, and of course take part in some kind of water sport.
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The Open Skies issue is something that's ongoing and we understand that there are issues in Australia that need to be sorted out. It's something that I think over time there's an opportunity for us and we'll work on that in a progressive way.
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It took me years to learn that character is fate and that no one can be made over.
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When I'm hiring a cook for one of my restaurants, and I want to see what they can do, I usually ask them to make me an omelette.
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I've worked in the theater, television, and films. A five-hour TV series is certainly more time than a character I'd be playing in a film.
