Leon Spinks Quotes
Kids always need a role model. I let them know you can do it, too, if you really want to.
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I love creating characters that people may or may have not ever seen before. But I enjoy the opportunity to try to make something new, and that's when I really come alive as an actor, so I really enjoyed working on 'Arrow.'
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When I played Robert Howard in 'The Whole Wide World', I was struggling with it. There's this dual thing where you feel real good about being able to play this juicy part, and then there's constant shame: 'Who am I to pretend to know who this guy was? Who am I to represent this guy for people who never knew him?'
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I tell people, 'Have you ever been to Oklahoma? There are a lot of nice people there that do wonderful things.'
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Obviously it's much easier to say that you're going to follow your passions when you're financially secure, but at least we can take solace in the fact that we now have the time to pursue the things that we really want to pursue because now the option of doing things just for the money isn't necessarily there.
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I know a lot of people who use the Internet really wisely. It enriches their lives in some way.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.
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Japan is the largest creditor country in the world, so we have made contributions to the stability of international markets and we want this IMF meeting to confirm that we will continue to contribute.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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I have won 85 caps and have had a great career with Wales and have enjoyed every minute of it.
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I like Jaykae. He's a great artist, and I absolutely love Dr. Dre's album and a bit of Calvin Harris now and then.
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The past two decades revolutionized the way we access information. You and I can have our questions answered with the click of a mouse at any time of day. If America, both corporation and citizen alike, can use these services to solve problems, why can't Washington?
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I really only worked for about a month on 'Meatballs.' What happened was that Ivan Reitman figured out that studios wanted to meet everybody involved with 'Animal House' except the producer. So he thought he'd better start directing.
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I've always been very tied to language.
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When I was a kid, a pickleball hit me in the back of the head, and I had memory problems. I was in a boarding school and the nuns gave me poems to remember to try and get the memory going again.
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Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.
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Just because you've faced your own mortality, it doesn't make it any less frightening.
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It really is systematic oppression that is so deeply ingrained into the very fabric of American society... Shedding a light on it, in whatever way possible, is the only way to create change.
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My father was never around, and my mother used to worry that the kids won't grow up to be connected to him.
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I don't want to be a follower; I want to be a leader and create new waves.
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I already have a Tony for my Broadway concert in '73. It's one of the most precious things I've won.
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Kids always need a role model. I let them know you can do it, too, if you really want to.
