Anthony Mackie Quotes
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It doesn't matter how much you want. What really matters is how much you want it. The extent and complexity of the problem does not matter was much as does the willingness to solve it.
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Not really, drums found me, I just liked music, all kinds of music.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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I've never experienced chronic pain myself, but I have known many people over the years who have.
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I'm not a control freak.
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Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.
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New research shows that you will be dead longer than you will be alive.
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I love, personally, the experience of going to the theater, going to the cinema.
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Once I had started film, I suddenly said, 'Wow, I love it.' I moved there from New York. But I've always gone back to the theater, and it is more satisfying, really, because you get to give a continuous performance - no sequels.
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If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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When you go back and really listen to the legendary rappers, this is timeless music. Guys like Biggie, guys like Pac, timeless music.
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
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In Shakespeare, unique individuals repudiate the stereotypes demanded by the structure of the play: Shylock commands our sympathy, Barnardine refuses to be hanged. Individuals trump the category.
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I am not going to talk about my personal life anymore. You have to learn that lesson sometime.
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I wanted to take nouvelle cuisine further, to the point where we were breaking down the essence of taste and sensation, reconfiguring food as a series of really intense hits on the tongue.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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No one wears high heels all day, every day.
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To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.
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I wish someone would redo 'Dune.'
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Nothing beats a private visit to Number Ten or Chequers to take the wind out of rebellious sails.
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
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It's weird, the idea of someone else playing my dad, but weirdly nice.
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Art-school girls are very nice.
