LL Cool J (James Todd Smith) Quotes
You know when you do 25 or 30 movies and people are still asking you how does it feel making the transition? you know youre not communicating correctly.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.
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This work made me more and more interested in biological matter, and I decided that I really wanted to work on the X-ray analysis of biological molecules.
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I'm a big handbag lover and will always have one with me.
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Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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Very ambitious startups often take a long time to work - or sometimes they take a very long time to look ambitious.
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I want to go create my own independent content and entertainment, in new models and in new ways, and essentially show studios and networks that people are good.
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I've lived in New York for 40 years. I came right after college.
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I was always quite good with accents - I always had quite a good ear - so from the age of about 13, I used to do a lot of voiceover and dubbing for foreign films.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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Generally, I find a lot to be grateful for.
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I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.
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Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
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During my adolescence, our family dwelt in rural Alaska. We were dirt poor, Depression-era poor. Tarpaper shack and kerosene lamps. In those days I read because that's all I had. I wrote because that's all I had.
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My philanthropy is largely focused on healthcare, and I really want to make a difference to people's lives.
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I think the job of an artist is to be honest and fearless.
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We should not argue with the blind man who maintained that sight was an illusion to which some abnormal people were subject. Therefore in speaking of religious experience I do not attempt to prove the existence of religious experience...
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It was very clear these people live with very real fear of emotional and physical harm, even now. Learning that they live in that world, that causes me to rethink and be more sensitive to some of the actions I do may have unintended consequences.
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We wanted to be achievers, but being an achiever didn't mean that you stopped being a woman.
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You know when you do 25 or 30 movies and people are still asking you how does it feel making the transition? you know youre not communicating correctly.
