Angie Stone Quotes
I don't want any man I can run over. What I love about a man in control is it allows them to be the kings that I always expect them to be.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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I personally enjoy theatre, but preferably I do films so that I can reach up to maximum audience. If you want to give a serious message, it will reach out to maximum people through films. But through theatre, you can hardly reach out to about 3,000 audience at a time.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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If I give five flops, I won't get a job. You have to perform at the box office when you are at the top. No one is running a charity here. People are putting huge amounts of money to make movies, and they want the films to be successful. They have invested money in you, so it is your duty to make sure the film does well.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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I learned this early on in the variety business: You've got to give folks responsibility, you've got to trust them, and then you've got to check on them.
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It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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The hardest thing is at the end you have to say bye to all these people who you have worked with for so many months. It was really sad not to see them anymore. But you have the parties that you go to and you get to see them, like the premieres and the screenings.
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I really identified with Jess, because my own dream was acting, which isn't the most conventional profession.
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So I was always passionate about it and felt that it was sort of the golden thread inside me in terms of what I was supposed to do in terms of work but I think I have relaxed a lot in terms of the actual experience and actually enjoy it more and enjoy the people more.
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I try to get over to Iraq and Afghanistan as much as I can.
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While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness in not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful.
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Investors have finally woken up to the fact that there is something called the 'Russian Internet' into which you can invest.
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I don't think I'd ever really survive the outdoors.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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I know what it takes to get to the Super Bowl, what Giants pride and that defense is really about.
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Far too often we see attention paid to the firearm and not the criminal.
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The sad truth for American actors is that they really have no control whatsoever over the material that they get, or can do, particularly actresses. And if you're over 40 and you're an actress, forget it.
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I don't want any man I can run over. What I love about a man in control is it allows them to be the kings that I always expect them to be.
