Alexandre Dumas Quotes
We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
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Those guys were made for me and Muhammad because they come straight in and don't back up but you had to watch out for his punching power but if we could have neutralized that then we would have been fine.
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No ideas and the ability to express them - that's a journalist.
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I've been playing old parts forever. I play 93 quite often. When you've done it more than once, you take the hint. I think it's a great burden if you're one of those fantastic stars who've always been beautiful; then I think it's hard.
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
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I had written in another draft a completely different kind of fight, but they said they couldn't afford to shoot it. They needed a fight scene, though, so I was told to put a fight scene in, but not the one I had written.
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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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I think the sensitivity that you need to create certain things sometimes would spill over into things that shouldn't have bothered me.
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You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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Posthumous reputations have little to do with real lives.
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I'm somebody who believes in funny things, and laughing, but I do like for them to come from a place that addresses the human condition.
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Some people think that welfare reform should have hurt Bill Clinton with black voters.
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I grew up in a university town in eastern North Carolina - what's called Tobacco Road. It was very rural.
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I have a wide spectrum, a wide demographic. I have the young girls, I have the gay community, I have many regular theatergoers. I do feel a tremendous responsibility and pride to be a role model for some of these young people.
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I think it's every actor's dream to play a character that's really odd, and you know no one wants to play himself.
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That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.
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I'm not the greatest driver. I don't know if I'll ever master the art.
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To me, the most worrisome part of traveling comes before any of the traveling actually occurs: the suitcase-packing process. It's a challenging and anxiety-filled process - I am caught between wanting my suitcase to be light and worrying I am going to need every single item in my bedroom.
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My siblings and I were friends with the boys who would become our stepbrothers - we grew up on the same street. I feel very special to have these amazing people in my life and if we hadn't all moved into this big house together I think I would have missed out on that, because we would have drifted apart.
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Whatever doesn't kill you, makes you watch a lot of Cartoon Network and drink mid-price Chardonnay at 11 in the morning.
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I've never been on a television show as a regular before.
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And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.
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We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.
