Luther Allison Quotes
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I'm constantly thinking about the role, and there's an infinite amount of questions you can ask yourself about a character to the point that it's hard to find the boundaries of when to not work.
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The more success you get, you start to be harder on yourself or more afraid of the looking glass. You have to learn to build a thicker skin because people are paying more attention.
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If I do something caring for a friend, I have no doubt in my mind they would do it for me.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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You never know what the future holds, so I am just enjoying being happy, healthy, and having my wonderful husband by my side.
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Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.
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I didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher told me to read it. And I thought, 'Oh God, I'm going to have to read a whole book by myself!' It's not that I couldn't read, it's just that I didn't really like books very much. But the book that she lent me I really enjoyed.
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I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.
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To be half-naked for a Greek mythology movie, it's a piece of art. You know, there's nothing vulgar in there.
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I felt the most intense pleasure in piercing the stone in order to make an abstract form and space; quite a different sensation from that of doing it for the purpose of realism.
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You're going to start seeing open-source, self-executing contracts gradually improve over time. What the Internet did to publishing, blockchain will do to about 160 different industries. It's crazy.
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We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.
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I mean, Internet radio, which is basically a guy with his iTunes putting it over the computer, is the only way you're going to get true eclectic music programmed.
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When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
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I'd like to think I'd never do a gratuitous fart joke.
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It is now clear that major irregularities did not occur.
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I make a bomb vaca frita. It's like a flank steak like with the ropa vieja, but it's fried with garlic and lime. And I make a really good picadillo.
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Making children cry for a photographer can be considered mean. But I would say that making children laugh and show off their jeans for an apparel ad is just as exploitative and less natural. Toddlers' natural state, like, 30 percent of the time, is crying, and it doesn't indicate pain or suffering.
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It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women.
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I kind of had a quarter-life crisis before I did 'Rent.' I had done Glinda in 'Wicked' for a while. I had worked for Cirque Du Soleil, and then I did 'Hair.' Then I had a real quiet time, not having work, and it was a time of not only self-discovery of me as a person, but also what I wanted as an artist and actor.
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There's a powerful tendency to overcomplicate the whole notion of leadership.
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So I cut out all the drinkin' and hangin' out and stuff like that early on.
