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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The fall of 1912 my fielding was above the average, but my hitting was not so good. However, I was the talk of the town because of my peculiar way of catching a fly ball. They later named it the Vest-Pocket Catch.
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I should be one of those actors who has a list. A lot of people do - 'I wanna do this and this and this' - but I don't. I enjoy being surprised - indeed, often ambushed - by a role.
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I became so disciplined when I was on tag. I would be at home by eight o'clock, and because I had boxing, I lived the disciplined life. I started reading because I learnt that so many champions educated themselves. Joe Louis, Mike Tyson, Bernard Hopkins. Before, it was 'act now, think later' - but the discipline and reading changed me.
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There are documentaries that will just save your life and be the conduit to the art form you started out loving.
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The maternal instinct is in me.
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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.
