Edward James Olmos Quotes
And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.

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The art of life is to show your hand.
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I literally was saved by a role, from becoming a cab driver. I never did have to wait tables, though, so looking back I guess I had it pretty soft.
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We're not ever interested in repeating ourselves or doing what people expect us to do, it's such a turn off.
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The cat, it is well to remember, remains the friend of man because it pleases him to do so and not because he must.
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I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.
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There's something nice and intimate about having a book. You know that someone's actually gone on this journey. You know that someone has actually researched and reported all these things. You can see and hear their tone in what they chosen to include and what they haven't.
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For some reason, I just lack that ability to be embarrassed about going up to people. I even do it for friends if they want to ask someone out.
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The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours.
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A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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I don't know what these Republican congressmen drink that make them experts on women's reproductive health.
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Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.
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My thinking musically has always been more advanced - it is difficult to get it down onto paper sometimes, even now.
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I've never heard a man in a suit tell me what to wear; that's not their forte. You hire your stylist; whatever someone's image is as an artist is what they've chosen to portray.
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The only way to generate sustained exponential growth is to make whatever you're making sufficiently good.
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My coherence-creating groups are going to put out all this mischief-mongership in the world.
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When I was put in a situation where I'm going there, you have to look at the team and the possibility that hey, we can probably do some good things over there.
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As long as you are dreaming, there is always a way out
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Pop stars are sending the message that their sexuality is the strongest thing they have to offer, and that's confusing and misleading to girls and women, especially since there's not enough of a counterbalance from those who rely on their other assets, like their music. Also, with the new obsession with all things "booty," it's important that women - and it's often women of color - aren't turned into mere caricatures. Right now it's: "Bend over." That's all people want to see. That's crazy. It's so far from where we should be.
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His heart skidded like a dirt bike on black ice as he watched her disappear.
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I love being in the studio, and I am a huge fan of live music. Without writing good stuff in the studio, you have nothing to play live.
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It's never been for love of money. I thank God for it because it makes me a living. But I sing because I love it, not because of the dollar signs.
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And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.