Khalid (Khalid Donnel Robinson) Quotes
I'm an African-American man with an Afro who isn't your typical athlete - who wasn't as masculine as other guys.
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If you make a film too American, it won't travel. It will have no life outside of its own country.
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Export anything to a friendly country except American management.
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Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.
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To be honest, it's easier for me to speak with an American accent.
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In American films, Russians are often portrayed like cartoon villains without clear motivations.
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I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.
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Never met Levinson. Ever. He directed those American Express spots for us for Seinfeld, and I was off on some guest spot that I didn't even want to do... and I got talked into doing it.
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I am a freestyle mogul skier who, on February 13, became the first American to win a gold medal at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics.
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For fiction, I'm not particularly nationalistic. I'm not like the Hugo Chavez of Latin American letters, you know? I want people to read good work.
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There's nothing more American than movies.
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American business has just forgotten the importance of selling.
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I'm the first American designer who went all over the world.
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I just don't consider myself to be, you know, an American actor. I don't want that life.
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When you're a pro athlete, life is very narcissistic - everything relates back to you and how you play. When you are getting out of pro sports, you suddenly have to get a little more mindful of what's going on around you and how you affect the rest of the world.
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My Native American heritage was not embraced by our family, and we grew up African-American, so I didn't have a lot of access or history to that line of my family.
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My great-grandfather fought with the Colonial Army in New England in the American Revolution.
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My skin may have wrinkles but it's because I'm smiling so much. That might sound like some terrible American greetings card, but I feel it's immoral for me to castigate my body for getting older, when it does everything I ask of it.
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The biggest accomplishment, in racial terms, for Barack Obama was being elected. He had to overcome his blackness to be elected. He climbed the Mt. Everest of American politics, becoming an historic first.
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The big French movie distributors are the Trojan horse of the American cinema.
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Many critics, when trying to praise a short-story collection, will say that it has the heft and scope of a good novel. But for me, one of the highest compliments you can pay a novel is to say that it has the rich texture and eloquent detail of a good story collection.
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No one ever said movies are for developing your range. Hardly anyone gets that opportunity. Which is why I think the stage is so good. It's less bread, but you can play different types, and you can initiate your own projects.
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We just can't change the rules if we don't like the results.
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I'm an African-American man with an Afro who isn't your typical athlete - who wasn't as masculine as other guys.
