Andre Braugher Quotes
Leadership is by far the most important quality when it comes to making a show that's going to last and of superb quality, something classy and fun.
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I've got a couple of bands that I'm working on. The one I'm really excited about, we're called London The Child. It's folky music and it's really cool.
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I went to Japan and I lived there. I lived in Mexico for a year. I went to Europe. I lived in Canada.
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Love has never failed. It has won every battle. And today and forever more it will go on undefeated. I'm also a very loving person.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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I grew up in a joint family of 60 people with one kitchen. So I am a firm believer in the family concept.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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'Power Play' is a morality tale for our post-Enron world and - not incidentally - wildly entertaining. Nothing wrong with that.
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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
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After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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I tend not to have any references to anything. I just jump into the script in front of me. If you reference too much, you have no idea if the performances are right.
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The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What if I wandered into this writer's people here?' If you've done your job and made your people and your settings well enough, that adds an extra dimension that you can't buy.
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In America, we may acknowledge Washington and Lincoln as great men, and probably Franklin and Jefferson and maybe Franklin Delano Roosevelt and possibly even several more, but we would probably disagree about precisely what it was that made them great, what it was that enabled them to give a lasting direction to the course of events.
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I'll always be tough on myself.
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The purpose of Plan Columbia was to deal with the increased cultivation and illegal activity associated with that cultivation concerning narco trafficking in Columbia.
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I'm an optimist, but an optimist who carries a raincoat.
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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
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If you choose to be Frankenstein with Botox and plastic surgery, you've bought your own private mask.
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For me, having characters who are part of a faith then allows me to talk about how that faith either works or fails them without having to attack the institution.
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I love America. I eagerly became a citizen. I have no bitterness toward those casting directors who dismissed me because of my accent, nor toward the producers and directors who wanted to cast me but thought the audience wouldn't accept my accent. I think they're selling their audience short.
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I normally speak by moving my hands, and I'm very expressive with my face - something Cuban, I guess.
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I don't think enough players channel the energy of the crowd. If it's done properly, and you don't let anger overwhelm and distract you, it's like a shot of adrenaline in the arm, and it gets the crowd pumped up.
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Ruby in Paradise and the intensity and quality that I was able to experience on Smoke were equally as important to me as working on this movie every day for three-and-a-half months.
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Leadership is by far the most important quality when it comes to making a show that's going to last and of superb quality, something classy and fun.
