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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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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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
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Every afternoon, I shut the door of my bedroom to write: Poetry was secret, dangerous, wicked and delicious.
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BEAUTY will result from the form and correspondence of the whole, with respect to the several parts, of the parts with regard to each other, and of these again to the whole; that the structure may appear an entire and compleat body, wherein each member agrees with the other, and all necessary to compose what you intend to form.
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The light in her eyes was beyond description, yet it did not instill improper thoughts: it inspired a love tempered by awe, purifying the hearts it inflamed.
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It is only when we no longer compulsively need someone that we can have a real relationship with them.
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I've come to terms with the fact that standing and screaming in someone's face about how wrong they are is never gonna make anyone change.
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I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.
