James Brown Quotes
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Acting was something I always wanted to try. I just didn't know how, or I didn't know when the door was gonna be open for me to try it. But it finally opened up for me when I did 'Turn It Up', and ever since then I've been in love with doing films.
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I grew up on films.
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It amazes me that talking about traditional values is controversial, but it seems to be.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
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When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
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Somebody told me long ago that in acting, it's okay to steal, just steal from the best.
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Virtue must be valuable, if men and women of all degrees pretend to have it.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Never for the sake of peace and quiet deny your convictions.
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When I first started playing in a band, before the Beatles, working bands played standards and they saved their rock material til the end of the night when they were really stretched out. It could be pretty lame.
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I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!
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Jazz is the only music in which the same note can be played night after night but differently each time.
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I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.
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My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.
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I just wanted to write the songs. I never wanted to sing them.
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I will say without reservations that from my point of view there can be no abstractions. Any shape or area that has not the pulsating concreteness of real flesh and bones, its vulnerability to pleasure or pain is nothing at all. Any picture that does not provide the environment in which the breath of life can be drawn does not interest me.
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It's no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.
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You can't keep your mind on fighting when you're thinking about a woman. You can't keep your concentration. You feel like sleeping all the time.
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The ceding of Alsace-Lorraine is nothing but war in perpetuity under the mask of peace.
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This is a revolution of the mind, get your mind together and get away from drugs.
