J. August Richards Quotes
Anyone who's trying to be there for their family and trying to take care of their children is a hero to me.
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I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.
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I feel like, for me, different environments are very important to me creatively. I think it's my norm to be on the move.
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I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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There's a lot of interviews now where nobody seems to talk about anything. Like it's illegal. But it can be fun if you stay involved. Like most conversations.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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Shaming people into being virtuous doesn't change behaviour.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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'The Fight Club' DVD is great. I like anything that has really good extras because as an actor, it's really great to see the behind-the-scenes stuff and see how different actors approach their particular project.
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We wish to ensure that young Africans do not feel disorientated in the century in which they live.
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I'm drawn in some strangely natural way to immersing myself in a milieu whose rules I don't understand, where there are things you can't access simply by being intelligent or doing well in school.
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Being Somali, being Muslim, it's always something I've been very proud of.
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Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
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My mom is a therapist, and my dad has a doctorate in psychology, and growing up, I felt 'very understood.'
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Michael Jackson and I talk all the time. I think we understand each other in a way that most people can't understand either of us.
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Let a man sow a field or plant a farm never so well, yet he cannot foretell who will gather in the fruits; another may build him a house of fairest proportion, yet he knows not who will inhabit it.
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I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.
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True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.
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There are so many stereotypes of how you have to be as a black man, growing up in the community as a man.
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When Silence of the Lambs did well commercially it was more than anything. My partner Ed Saxon and I were just so relieved that finally we had made a movie that had made some money!
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There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.
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I was completely naive about the business of being an actor. My family didn't go to the theater or to the movies. We watched television like every 1960s small-town American family, and I certainly never thought about being on TV. I thought I was going to be a classical actor in the grand tradition.
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Anyone who's trying to be there for their family and trying to take care of their children is a hero to me.
