Anthony Mackie Quotes
I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have.
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It was such a lovely day I thought it a pity to get up.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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My dad has totally taken my Cat Stevens T-shirt, but it's OK; I have his Black Flag one, and that's amazing.
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.
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I grew up outside Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in a little town, and went to a regular high school. I was a... very average student in that high school. Then I joined the Navy, and while I was in the Navy, I was in a motorcycle accident and woke up deaf in a hospital.
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Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
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The most irresistible charm of youth is its bubbling enthusiasm. Youth sees no darkness ahead - no defile that has no outlet - it forgets that there is such a thing as failure in the world and believes that mankind has been waiting all these centuries for him to come and be the liberator of truth and energy and beauty.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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You can be obsessed with makeup and hair products and, you know, your appearance and still be absolutely making smart life decisions and work on your smarts, develop your smarts by studying something like math. Then you'll make much better decisions on the brands of clothing that you buy or whatever it is that you want.
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What's really good is African drum music.
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When I was a kid and started to be obsessed by art in the 1980s, the art world was in this polarity Warhol/Beuys, Beuys/Warhol. Both expended the notion of art extremely, but in very different ways.
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The reason I took Early Edition - besides the fact that I liked it - was that it enabled me to start a production company in New York City. It's a low-budget film company to produce and direct movies.
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I respect Marvel as a company, and I think they're great, but never in my life have I looked up to being a superhero.
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At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.
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We live on a 500-acre ranch, beautiful ranch.
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Some ticket buyers think they don't like Jews.
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And the blood of brave men was shed like unto the shedding of rain from a black cloud.
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Many people think it's in bad taste to advertise for an insane asylum... but come on down. We're going crazy.
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I created 'The Guild' because nobody was offering me the roles I thought I could do best at in Hollywood.
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Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.
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People would say you look weak if you're not cursing the opposition and driving around in a big black car while always wearing a tie. Above all, to be 'strong' you're always supposed to be giving orders.
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The people who review my books, generally, are kind of youngish culture writers who aspire to write books. When someone writes a book review, they obviously already self-identify as a writer. I mean, they are. They're writers, they're critics, and they're writing about a book about a writer who's a critic. So I think it's really hard for people to distance themselves from what they're criticizing.
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I went to school and made good grades and went to college. So I was afforded an opportunity through my parents' hard work that most people don't have.
