James A. Baldwin Quotes
I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
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Touring, and being in a band, it's almost like the other stuff, the other parts of life, get put on hold.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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If you're going to play a villain, there's no greater compliment than being told that you give people nightmares. I never thought I would be the actor that would give people nightmares.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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What gunpowder did for war the printing press has done for the mind.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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We have a great country, we are a great nation - let us trust in it.
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At first, I didn't really have a passion for acting.
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I love all my scoop children. But consistency and persistence is really my aim.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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For me, with music, there is no half-stepping. This is my calling.
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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
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I am a big, confident, happy woman who had a loving childhood, a pleasant career, and a wonderful marriage. I feel very lucky.
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At Wikinvest, which got renamed Sigfig, we were constantly just two or three months away from not being able to make payroll.
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From being in the industry as a teenager, I'm so used to getting makeup done all day.
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Why did I spend all these years playing boring Europeans? I was made for action movies.
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Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.
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She was made up of skin and bones and hate and crazy, and hate and crazy don't weigh anything.
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I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.
