Andre Holland Quotes
It's not every day you get to be in a movie about Jackie Robinson, so you want to do it as right as you can.
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I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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I think it's more and more important to spend time with your children, because it seems to be harder and harder for them to succeed as their parents have succeeded.
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I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country.
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If you do well as an actor, a good director will pick up on it, and keep it in the film.
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Just as we would have no need of the farmer's labor and toil if we were living amid the delights of paradise, so also we would not require the medical art for relief if we were immune to disease, as was the case, by God's gift, at the time of Creation before the Fall.
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As a queen, I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.
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Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little danger.
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My original idea was to produce and not make records myself.
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I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.
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I think for the last fifteen, twenty years or so, Hollywood has underestimated the appeal of the Western. I think there is still a huge market.
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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All schools should teach children basic cooking skills. Every school should be able to buy sustainable, good quality food wherever possible from local sources. Every school should include food-growing in the curriculum. For some, that will mean twinning with willing farms. For others, it will mean literally building their own small farms.
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I would say that to put architecture in the chain of history, to be able to interpret and understand why we are where we are, is quite crucial.
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We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.
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I'm definitely inspired by old hip-hop.
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I'm worried a lot of our work day as artists is a producer's creation - not an artist's creation.
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The older you get, the better you have to look, the higher you have to kick, the harder you have to work.
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I've been terrified of the water, and yet it seems I'm forced to go into in on every movie that I make.
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I would love to go off and do a movie with Judd Apatow or do another 'Mean Girls,' but to me, it's whatever the story is.
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I try to write cinematically. Let me define what I mean by that. First of all, I try to write in a visual way so that the reader can watch a movie in their head. And it keeps moving. I try to structure the stories like a screenplay may be structured.
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I always look for the weirdest note to land on. I felt that that was the least I could do for the great musical traditions which I've spawned.
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It's not every day you get to be in a movie about Jackie Robinson, so you want to do it as right as you can.
