Andre Ward Quotes
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Music isn't like news, where it's what happened five minutes ago or even 10 seconds ago that matters. With music, a song from the 1960s could be as relevant to someone today as the latest Ke$ha song.
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I feel optimistic about how heterogeneous societies pull together. We just have to keep on with the struggle.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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To do a really good interview, you have to be truly interested in the person.
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A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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I was quite short and chubby until I was 14, when I shot up.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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I've never been jealous. I've never had to be.
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Salvation for a race, nation or class must come from within.
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Plastic surgery and breast implants are fine for people who want that, if it makes them feel better about who they are. But, it makes these people, actors especially, fantasy figures for a fantasy world. Acting is about being real being honest.
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We got to think of other ways to help these kids out because there's a lot of kids who get hurt in college and then don't make it to the NFL and don't have insurance, and their entire lives are changed when they put their bodies on the line for their school.
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There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
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In the early '90s, I was hired to write educational dramas about HIV and AIDS in the shantytowns. I did that for two and a half years, and then I was hired on other films. When 'Tsotsi' presented itself, I thought, 'This is not a world I grew up in, but I've spent a great deal of time writing about it and researching it in my past.'
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'The Big Sleep' would have been a more effective study of nightmarish existence had the detective been more complicated and had more curiosity been shown about his sweetheart's relation to the crime.
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I want to start recording and writing as soon as I can and get music that I love out as soon as possible.
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After you win, people expect you to always play so good. When that doesn't happen, it's hard to deal with.
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I was in the Marine Corps in 1971. The idea 'Where does authority come from?' is fascinating to me. And also, the idea of a chaplain is fascinating to me because it's a man of the cloth in uniform, and it's the uniform of a killing machine. Back when I was in the Corps, when I saw that, I was amazed by it.
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I don't wanna lose your faceAnd I don't wanna wake up one dayand not remember what time erased.I don't wanna turn around'Cause I'm not scared of what love gave me and took away.And I don't wanna lose your face...
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What's weird is that I work with these directors and then I start channeling them. I kind of turn into them a bit - which is cool when you're working with Clint Eastwood.
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Once you go up in weight, I will never go down; you just don't do it.
