Luther Allison Quotes
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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J. J. Abrams is a director that I've admired for a long time, from the very first scripts he wrote - including 'Regarding Henry,' which I was in.
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You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
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Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches.
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I see Turkey's future as being in Europe, as one of many prosperous, tolerant, democratic countries.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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Only together do Europe and the U.S. stand a chance of keeping liberal democracy as the central doctrine for organizing world affairs.
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Community colleges are one of America's great social inventions a gateway to the future for first time students looking for an affordable college education, and for mid-career students looking to get ahead in the workplace.
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You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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I can't watch a Mayweather fight. I don't find it exciting.
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I wouldn't let a biopic be made on me. That's because I don't believe in them. I don't like them.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
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Time was God's first creation.
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What is exciting is not for one person to be stronger than the other... but for two people to have met their match and yet they are equally as stubborn, as obstinate, as passionate, as crazy as the other.
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A man's kiss is his signature.
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You can watch someone on – stage cry and cry – but in the audience you feel nothing. It's easy to become indulgent. For me, what's important is the story first.
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Obtain power, then, by all means; power is the law of man; make it yours.
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If the adjustment made by a court can be accepted or not, it will be refused whenever the men can gain more by continuing the strike, with whatever of violence that involves.
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Some people are embarrassed to say they came from East St. Louis, Ill., but now more people want to claim it. I grew up in a community center and I knew what it gave me. I always knew I wanted to give back and help people because people helped me.
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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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I'm trying to make really flawed characters that have got redeeming features so people can say, 'I don't really like that character, but I can understand a bit where they've come from.'
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I focused on how these people became how they were.
