Ossie Davis Quotes
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.
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I was a newspaper editor in high school, and I truly thought of journalism as a career. I loved it.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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Biggie was a lyrical genius: he was a musical painter with words. As he rapped, you would see the picture come to life as you heard his story. You hear a lot of rappers rap; you hear a lot of singers sing, but you don't see the movie in your head the way you do when you hear Biggie rap.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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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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If the only thing you knew about Oman was its location, you might never go at all.
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Anyone can make an article longer; the skill is keeping it tight and lean.
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You gotta improvise in life. You gotta improv if the police pull you over.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.
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If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.
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I believe sci-fi fans are incredibly intelligent.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is.
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Your belief system saturates the space around you.
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I was drafted into the Army when I was 19 and came out at age 22. Most people that I knew didn't think they'd come home alive. I didn't think I would either, so I was happy when I did.
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I think 'Trial & Retribution' as a brand can go on forever. Its joy is that it has, to an extent, a formula, which gives a comfort routine for viewers. But we allow our directors total autarchy in putting their personalities on their stories.
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I thought I was making fifty dollars a week at MGM, but it turned out to be $35 because twelve weeks of the year you were on layoff. It was white slavery, and it lasted for seventeen years.
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I’m the Bernie Madoff of this spider.
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I sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant to be intellectual or artistic or compassionate, it isn't, and that makes me very angry.
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I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.
