Louis Gossett, Jr. Quotes
When I'm offered a role, I look at what I think I can do with it. I look to see if I can project myself into it.
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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You can be funny and say what you mean; these ideas are not mutually exclusive. Some of the best jokes came from people who meant it. See: Pryor, Bruce, Carlin, etc.
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What is so refreshing playing with Neil Finn and all his friends is these people think exactly the same - regular people doing their thing and separating the music from the business.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.
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I think a lot of people are curious about what makes people do what they do, and I guess my curiosity isn't hidden in any way.
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I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.
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As a lot of the venture capital world seems to be shifting away from consumer, we want to make sure that consumer entrepreneurs know there's still money available.
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I make all my decisions on intuition.
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When you're filming, it's very different from what you see on screen.
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Well, a girlfriend once told me never to fight with anybody you don't love.
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'The Week' is my favourite magazine. Everyone from presidents to CEOs of companies love it, politicians, people in the massive charity business in America, in the arts and even more especially in the media.
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It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.
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It's cool to be in the paper every once in awhile and people read about you and they know who you are.
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A private ball this was called...but Lord! my dear Sir, I believe I saw half the world!
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Unless you have a feeling for that secret knowledge that modest things can be more beautiful than anything expensive, you will never have style.
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If you're going to use standards as criteria for signing musicians, you can sign thousands. If you're going to use some sort of conceptual interpretation that's based on the tradition of those standards, but is trying to move away from it, you're down to about 10 people or so.
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I've had the privilege of having a lot of amazing people cook for me.
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The press gave me a voice too quickly, and that could have unsettled a man who had every right to feel he should be in control of the thing he had created.
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I actually started modeling in Ethiopia, because that's where I grew up, and I started out by just doing little fashion shows for school, and I liked it so much that I started pursuing it.
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When I'm offered a role, I look at what I think I can do with it. I look to see if I can project myself into it.
