James A. Baldwin Quotes
Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
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I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.
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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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It's always difficult with the superhero stuff because you're working with characters who have been written by 100 to 200 people over the past 20 years, at least, so they never sound the same or act the same. The best approach is to try to draw the best fitting line through all of the interpretations.
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It is easy to get an interesting loop to happen, but it becomes a collage when the song and loop are constantly changing.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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People are really upside down. They want a government they can trust. They want one that's not going to raise their taxes by $15 billion and not lay off one state employee.
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A person can't have everything in this world; and it was a little unreasonable of her to expect it.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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By four years of age, the average child in a family receiving public assistance has heard about 13 million words, compared to 45 million for a child from a wealthier family. The disadvantages developed during their first four years are usually still present in high school.
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I want to be like Robin Williams, really. It's all the different characters he does, all the different voices.
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I always had the dream of flying, and the cheapest way is to become a skydiver.
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I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.
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There's something about having a great bottle of wine and a great cigar. Nothing compares to it.
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If you don't drive your business, you will be driven out of business.
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If I am not for myself, who will be for me? If I am not for others, what am I? And if not now, when?
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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
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It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.
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A book read by a thousand different people is a thousand different books.
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For light I go directly to the Source of light, not to any of the reflections.
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The fact is that the British Museum had a complete specimen of a dodo in their collection up until the 18th century - it was actually mummified, skin and all - but in a fit of space-saving zeal, they actually cut off the head and they cut off the feet and they burned the rest in a bonfire.
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A multiple personality is in a certain sense normal.
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Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time.
