Leroy Hood Quotes
Don't listen to the prevailing majority points of view. If you have new ideas, push them.
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It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
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Somebody once told me I shouldn't try to change Hollywood. That isn't my point at all. I don't want Hollywood to change me.
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
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I never sing in the shower either.
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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I'm a pretty big news junkie.
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The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.
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If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you're still kind of half in the relationship with them, but you're single, and it takes a while to feel solid in yourself again.
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When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.
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There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the same.
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There's no big splashy renaissance in Italian films. We have good young actors and directors. What we lack are screenwriters. It's hard to write about Italy.
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The greatest failure is that although we have created institutions, we have not created a civil society.
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There is less fighting in the game than we had years ago. I mean, we penalize it.
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I've always loved a challenge.
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I like darker, mysterious scents and things that reflect my personality.
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I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.
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If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it's something that a lot of musicians juggle with. I've always found it so fascinating.
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I coulda got mad. But then I had to stop and think, well, what did he get in school? What did he get in his work experience? What did he get even from his own union, that gave him some tools to understand what he was seeing on that television?
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It's too heart-wrenching doing the solo thing. I throw myself into it and get so excited, and then 2000 people buy it and you're, like, 'Oh. I guess it's not that good after all.'
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Focusing on getting the most out of every situation is stressful. Focusing on giving the most in every situation is liberating.
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I married a young Englishman in Cambridge in 1955 and have lived in Britain every since.
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In all of my books, I really want to work with working-class people. My goal is to show the moments of grace and dignity in their lives.
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We're really spoiled on 'Mad Men.' Lots of television actors use the down season to go out and get creatively fulfilled, but I feel the opposite. Anything else I get to do is just icing.
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Don't listen to the prevailing majority points of view. If you have new ideas, push them.
