LL Cool J (James Todd Smith) Quotes
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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I just want to stay creative, share my ideas and see where it all leads.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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I wasn't a ladies' man.
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Nobody really believes in equality anyway.
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There's a good deal in common between the mind's eye and the TV screen, and though the TV set has all too often been the boobtube, it could be, it can be, the box of dreams.
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What makes Mom the best is that she never put any expectations too high on the kids. She just wanted us to be doing the things that made us happy, as long as we were working hard, but we never had to live up to something.
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There are still so many movies made starring 50 men and one woman! A white male actor should never be allowed to complain about anything. Shut up and sit in the corner. I mean, seriously!
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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The American landscape has no foreground and the American mind no background.
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I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.
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Now there are certain things you have to prepare - like dialect and special skills. But in the moment, interaction between two characters on the page doesn't need - for me, I don't need to prepare that.
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I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
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Despite the demands of this job, one of the things my wife and I try to do is to spend time together alone. And one of the things we really enjoy doing together is seeing a good movie.
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When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
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There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
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We need money. We need hits. Hits bring money, money bring power, power bring fame, fame change the game.
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I've seen people go through divorces and stuff, crossroads that don't end well. Often.
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Jai jaigarvi Gujarat mantra jeevant karne ke liye hame shanti ka marg hi chahiye. In order to give life to the mantra of Jai Garvi Gujarat, we need to follow the path of peace.
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I read a lot of scripts and so many are clearly a knockoff of one familiar genre or another.
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Looking back at my career, I wish I knew then what I know now... that gender bias is built into the system, and it's unconscious in many ways. I wish I had the maturity and courage to have pushed back more. I was always trying to be a 'good girl' and play by the rules.
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An actor is only a part of the film, not the whole, and very often, he is moulded by the director. That is why a good director can make so much difference to a film.
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You don't need to be the good guy to get a good message out.
