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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Don't get me wrong: I wouldn't wish it on anyone. Even the word 'cancer' brings back the nausea and pain, the fear I felt, and the heartbreak I saw in my parents' faces. The smells that fill hospitals and the constant tired feeling that comes with treatment are also permanently stuck in my memory.
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Any life he'd ever heard of, his own included, was burdened with emotions - love, loss, jobs, jealousy, money, death, pain. But if you were Jewish, always there was this extra one, the added pull at your endurance, the one more thing. There was that line in Thoreau about 'quiet desperation' - that was indeed true of most men. But for some men and women, for some fathers and mothers and children, the world still contrived that one extra test, endless and unrelenting.
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I'm the streetwise New Yorker nun who's always wanted to be on-stage. I'm taking tap classes here in Los Angeles. There is a big tap number.
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I want to take all the pain that I feel and celebrate and turn it around.
