Anthony Mackie Quotes
With all the movies I've done, I still get recognized from my episode of 'Law & Order' more than anything else. It never fails.
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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The South resented giving the Afro-American his freedom, the ballot box and the Civil Rights Law.
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But black people fall for that same argument, and they go around talking about law breakers. We did not make the laws in this country. We are neither morally nor legally confined to those laws. Those laws that keep them up, keep us down.
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Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.
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The law of the Creator, which invests every human being with an inalienable title to freedom, cannot be repealed by any interior law which asserts that man is property.
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When I'm in the U.K. – and I'm here more than people would think – I tend to keep a very low profile.
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In my view, the adults are the burnt generation of Iraq for whom nothing can be done. But for the children, we can worry now, we can talk about them, we can plan for them, we can get our protest heard by others.
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I cook mostly vegetarian vegetable and bean stews. Quinoa salads. I make my mother-in-law's recipe for chicken and barley stew all the time.
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Everybody either hates or loves John Cena; there's no medium. I feel like that I've accomplished something when I get people to cheer for John Cena. I feel like I've done something.
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While in the Florida legislature, I strongly opposed the Stand Your Ground law because I believed it would provide defenses to people who had created the scenarios they sought protection from. Or it would leave juries without the proper rules of engagement that ought govern predictable human interactions.
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I have a very successful father-in-law and family with very different political views.
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I've never done well when I've been appreciated. I've done best when I'm targeted for death.
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Poussey is a really huge part of 'Orange,' and I'm sure her name will always echo through the halls of Litchfield, dead or alive.
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All my career, all that I've really done has been based on emotion and intuition and gravitating toward what sounds good.
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Any jackass can kick down a barn, but it takes a good carpenter to build one.
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The only thing I'd ever done with news was to read copy sitting at the microphone in the studio.
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If I could sew comedy and philosophy together, then I've done a good job. The primary goal is always going to be laughs and the secondary goal is always going to be saying something without it being a lecture.
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The damage done to U.S. prestige by the feckless, buffoonish George W. Bush will take years to repair.
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A lot of my training is in classical theatre; I've done a lot of classical plays in New York and also at the Guthrie and here and there across the country.
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When you know what you want, and want it bad enough, you will find a way to get it.
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I think one of the problems the Democrats have today is that they are an elitist party.
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I had lunch the other day with my niece, Emma, and she said, 'You're so smart, Aunt Julia.' And I wanted to say, 'I'm not smart - I'm 41! You're 17!'
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With all the movies I've done, I still get recognized from my episode of 'Law & Order' more than anything else. It never fails.
