Armand Assante Quotes
I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that.
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I will, proudly and by preference, do at least one picture a year for King Brothers, and I will try to make it the best picture that I have it in me to do.
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It is absolutely unacceptable to think that in the last year of the president's term, that he should stop doing his job, and he won't.
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Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.' And 'Ender's Game' is just not that simple, so it's an exciting challenge. It's a little terrifying, and let's see how audiences respond.
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The success of each of us benefits us all, and the success of us all benefits each of us individually.
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.
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I was a hacker of sorts. Not a mind 'reader,' exactly; more a mind 'radar,' in tune with the workings of the aether. I could sense the nuances of dreamscapes and rogue spirits. Things outside myself. Things the average voyant wouldn't feel.
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Compton is my city.
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Everyone's curves fall in a different place. But you can't put something of mine on and not see curves.
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A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.
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Everyone who goes to a job he doesn't like is a lot weirder than I am.
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Nobody ever asks a father how he manages to combine marriage and a career.
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You cannot be a leader, and ask other people to follow you, unless you know how to follow, too.
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Great success doesn't come in short periods of time.
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I try to let my game speak for itself.
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The end of a picture is always an end of a life.
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Knowing was better than not knowing. But not by much.
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There came a point when if a conspiracy was that powerful and subtle it became pointless to worry about it.
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A car is thirty thousand parts you're putting together.
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I don't believe in writing anything that I don't know about or haven't researched about personally. I like to transport the reader to places, and in order to do that I have to do the research.
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The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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I remember that Charles Schulz, at the end of his life, had eyes full of tears for Charlie Brown. I thought about the reason for all his emotion: he had lived for 50 years with them.
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I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that.
