Lennox Lewis Quotes
You can't spend 110 percent on something if you don't have that same hunger and drive. I have achieved all my goals - my mission is complete.
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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Governments, of course, can - and do - soak the rich.
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I stay true to myself, my daughter. I just remember where I came from - I remember what I'm coming from - and then I remember why I do what I do.
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I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.
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If you think about it, a lot of great horror films have bad sequels just because the market demands you to make the other one right away. Thank God no one in the 'Evil Dead' family thinks that way.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
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There is lasting kindness in Heaven when no kindness is found upon earth.
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I think of America not so much as a single country but as a constellation of groups out there competing for air time, energetically expressing themselves and luxuriating in their right to govern themselves. Freedom is that great vaunted word that's always applied to our country - and rightly so.
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You could argue that 'Sweeney Todd' was romantic, if you looked closely at it, but it didn't impart that to its audiences. But it's large, and it's melodramatic, and it's a style I like to work in periodically.
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My characters are fictional. I get ideas from real people, sometimes, but my characters always exist only in my head.
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It used to be that when an actress reached thirty, she was considered almost washed up.
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I'd say when it comes to being who you are, just don't be afraid to try things.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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We run to win, not just to be in the race.
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The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.
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I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
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Bless my mom. Mom is everything to me.
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Each color lives by its mysterious life.
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As a friendly one. I would still like to write concrete poems, but I can only do it sometimes.
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Each coming together of man and wife, even if they have been mated for many years, should be a fresh adventure; each winning should necessitate a fresh wooing.
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A poor self-image is the magnifying glass that can transform a trivial mistake or an imperfection into an overwhelming symbol of personal defeat.
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In 2009, I edited, under the aegis of the Library of America, an anthology called 'Becoming Americans: Immigrants Tell Their Stories from Jamestown to Today.' It featured immigrants from different backgrounds, from black slaves like Phillis Wheatley to Yiddish-language speakers like Henry Roth.
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You may have the loftiest goals, the highest ideals, the noblest dreams, but remember this nothing works unless you do.
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You can't spend 110 percent on something if you don't have that same hunger and drive. I have achieved all my goals - my mission is complete.
