Stevie Wonder (Stevland Hardaway Morris) Quotes
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'Jurassic Park' and 'Star Wars' shoved me into loving sci-fi and film in general when I was a barely coherent 3-year-old. And 'Lord of the Rings' took me to another planet entirely. Before that series, I knew I loved writing, but after, I knew that I had to write.
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I've been hyper-conscious about staying away from rubbish. I don't eat white bread, white rice or cereal unless it's porridge.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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Horrible things happen when you run out of other people's money, and life and work becomes a burden when there is no reward for your effort.
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I always tell people I went to the Harvard School of Comedy in front of America.
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The society Shakespeare knew was heading for tremendous change, and he seems to have recognized that and written about it in a coded way. I understand those codes, I think.
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I hear odd tracks from my albums every now and again on the radio, or maybe a friend plays me something.
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The man who has his millions will want everything he can lay his hands on and then raise his voice against the poor devil who wants ten cents more a day.
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I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.
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At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting.
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Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.
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I like to roller skate. I have been roller skating since I was eight.
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All the problems we face in the United States today can be traced to an unenlightened immigration policy on the part of the American Indian.
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No one wants to work with a difficult star. I want to be the nice guy.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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One of the things about the '70s films I love - the films 'Nightcrawler' is being compared to, like, 'Taxi Driver' - is that they never put their flawed characters into any one box.
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The familiar trope of the woman in peril doesn't really interest me.
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Be careful what rubbish you toss in the tide. On outgoing billows it drifts from your sight, But back on the incoming waves it may ride And land at your threshold again before night. Be careful what rubbish you toss in the tide.
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Young men need a positive influence, especially when they don't have a strong male figure in their lives. They can be influenced by a great, godly man in the church, which gives men a great mission in the church to influence these kids.
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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
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As soon as a roast is announced, I get everybody - family, friends, waitresses, cab drivers - giving me jokes about the person getting roasted. I'm the mouthpiece for the masses.
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I'd be lying if I didn't say there were days when I went back and said, 'I wish I'd done this. I should have done that. I handled this the wrong way.' But it's always in the motivation of getting better. I've never once looked in the mirror and said, 'Oh boy, can't do this one.'
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I want to take all the pain that I feel and celebrate and turn it around.
