Edward James Olmos Quotes

Had I done the movies that were offered to me in my prime, at the height of my career, I would have been alongside the likes of Denzel Washington. But, I chose not to do those movies.

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• I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.

  

  Nathan Lane
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• I really don't want to portray the Islamists as simply evil, the way it's often done in the west.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
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• My only career strategy is to just not do anything that I have to be completely ashamed of afterwards! Whether it's TV or movies, I feel lucky to be working.

  

  Dan Byrd
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• Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'

  

  Edmund Morgan
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• I did not even look at the scoreboard when my routine was done in 1976.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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• I remember once, actually the first race I ran, I fell.

  

  Usain Bolt
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• I've done all different kinds of genres - doo-wop, pop, funk, gospel, country, jazz, you name it.

  

  Aaron Neville
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• I've given just as much of my life to that, and I practiced it with the same zeal, as I have acting. And I think that many of my skill sets from being a housewife I used for producing. Because you don't stop until it's done.

  

  Frances McDormand
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• It is my absolute belief that Indians have unlimited talent. I have no doubt about our capabilities.

  

  Narendra Modi
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• I love the game so much. I've been penalized. I've been fined. I have some regrets in my career. But for those four hours on Sunday, you can be free and just let it all go. Retiring had nothing to do with football; it had to do with my family.

  

  Randy Moss
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• I like to wear things that are daring but also not seem too avant-garde.

  

  Usher
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• I loved competing and winning and also wanted to continue my career for the fans, knowing they were there for me and enjoyed watching me fight.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
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• I've been blessed in my career to be able to do studio and independent films.

  

  Jackson Rathbone
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• I've done a lot of things that I regret.

  

  R. Kelly
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• I could have easily never worked again after 'Precious.' I could be back at my receptionist job and no one would be surprised, but I'm having a very crazy little career that no one thought would happen. Although that was never the plan.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
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• 'Carrie' was a pretty big-budget movie at a real studio, with a director that had already done a bunch of things and had some notoriety, and Stephen King was the writer.

  

  P. J. Soles
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• I've done a lot of sorts of films that are under the radar.

  

  Sam Rockwell
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• I'm a career prosecutor. I have been trained, and my experience over decades, is to make decisions after a review of the evidence and the facts. And not to jump up with grand gestures before I've done that. Some might interpret that as being cautious. I would tell you that's just responsible.

  

  Kamala Harris
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• It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity.

  Nastassja Kinski
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• I feel strongly for the younger actresses when a lot of their career is based on how they look. That must be hard when your looks begin to go and you haven't built up the wealth of character parts to get into something else.

  

  Janet McTeer
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• If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more prevalent than the fear of one another.

  

  R. D. Laing
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• Because when I go places and I talk to kids and I talk to parents and I talk to athletes all over, and they look at my story and they see a person, African-American or not, they see something that they can relate to.

  

  Cam Newton
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• If someone asks me a question, it is very difficult not to answer honestly.

  

  Penelope Tree
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• Had I done the movies that were offered to me in my prime, at the height of my career, I would have been alongside the likes of Denzel Washington. But, I chose not to do those movies.

  

  Edward James Olmos
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