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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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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Who is going to educate the human race in the principles and practice of conservation?
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If I screw up, I'm gonna say, 'You know what? I really screwed up.' That's all you can do. Some people gonna forgive you, some people not gonna forgive you. That's just the way it works.
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Personally, I don't like a girlfriend to have a husband. If she'll fool her husband, I figure she'll fool me.
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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.
