Cuba Gooding, Jr. Quotes
The truth is, you don't ever decide on a role, not when you first begin. You audition for the role, and you're lucky to get it.
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I doubt I'll ever have another traditional print deal.
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I'm very much a hypochondriac, worried about dying, and not having enough time to work with the people I want to work with and being fulfilled as an actor.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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I don't want to be 'Halsey: America's Sweetheart,' or 'Halsey: Bad Girl.' If you can sum up my career in a clickbait headline, I've done something wrong.
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I'm actually beginning to believe that there is something in common among all of my characters. I'm not sure what it is exactly. But I guess that something is me.
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For all of the continued awareness of systemic violence and oppression, there isn't a lot of talk about that psychological toll of racism, at least in white circles and white media.
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I'm definitely not a super great guitarist. Ultimately, I just write a lot of love songs.
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I told myself, 'I am teaching entrepreneurship, so I should be an entrepreneur myself.'
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When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.
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'A living dog is better than a dead lion.' Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don't care anything about it.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
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It is not enough just to wish well; we must also do well.
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Animation can explain whatever the mind of man can conceive. This facility makes it the most versatile and explicit means of communication yet devised for quick mass appreciation.
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People don't usually compliment your character.
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In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better, almost English. But after four pots, your kettle's broken.
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What I care about is readers because without readers I can't make a living... And I think it's a bad thing for the world if people don't read anymore. I want people to read a lot.
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Things forbidden have a secret charm.
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I'm thankful my parents obliged me to live with the unvarnished truth: I might not have been a looker, but I was a better speller than the prettiest girl in my class, and I was funnier, too.
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Be lamps unto yourselves. Be refuges unto yourselves. Take yourself no external refuge. Hold fast to the truth as a lamp. Hold fast to the truth as a refuge. Look not for a refuge in anyone besides yourselves. And those, Ananda, who either now or after I am dead, Shall be a lamp unto themselves, Shall betake themselves as no external refuge, But holding fast to the truth as their lamp, Holding fast to the truth as their refuge, Shall not look for refuge to anyone else besides themselves, It is they who shall reach to the very topmost height; But they must be anxious to learn.
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I've only gotten directly offered two or three movies, ever. I don't have the luxury of being able to say no a lot, and I don't really have the luxury of just getting to pick and choose certain things. If I did, I probably would choose even more different roles than I've played.
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I think that's the biggest misconception - that in order for me to be sexy I have to make sure my boobs are out.
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The truth is, you don't ever decide on a role, not when you first begin. You audition for the role, and you're lucky to get it.
