Cuba Gooding, Jr. Quotes
At one point, I was greenlighting films and scripts that shouldn't have been made based on the fact that they had that stamp of approval of an Academy Award winner. And the good news is I got to learn the real process of filmmaking - directing, storyboarding, writing.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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I have changed so much as an actor over the years.
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If Boston charters can be stymied despite their extraordinary success, charters anywhere can be stopped.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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When my film flops, I believe it is my mistake. There have been times when I didn't come out of my house because my films didn't do well. I lock myself in for months. I don't talk to people. I feel bad for producer, director, for those who lost money. It's never about myself or my career alone.
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In the time I spent with him, Jurgen Klopp was enigmatic, larger than life, and extremely quick-witted. He is quite unique as a football manager in many ways, and that is what makes him so entertaining.
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It was a small provincial place with great people and I had a happy childhood growing up in Queens.
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I loved 'Dirty Sexy Money.' That didn't have a long enough shelf life. I would've liked to explore that character and play with that cast longer. That was a lot of fun to shoot.
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I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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I think it is valuable and should be valued by its consumers. Charging for content forces discipline on journalists: they must produce things that people actually value.
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I walk around every day with a radio playing constantly in my head, and this radio station plays a lot of hits. But it's all my songs, so that's something to be excited about 24 hours a day.
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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
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Dictionaries are always fun, but not always reassuring.
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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When I am angry, I pray God to swing our globe into the fiery sun and prevent the sorrows of the not-yet-born: but when I am content, I want to lie forever in the shade, till I become a shade myself.
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Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
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So many differing opinions and philosophies... are rarely housed under the roof of a single magazine.
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I've seen so much. And I've heard so many great performers. There are performers now that couldn't work back in the days when I came along.
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I believe the climate is changing.
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Everybody touches the basketball on offense for us. We don't run plays for particular people. We expect everybody to score and contribute defensively.
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I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.
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At one point, I was greenlighting films and scripts that shouldn't have been made based on the fact that they had that stamp of approval of an Academy Award winner. And the good news is I got to learn the real process of filmmaking - directing, storyboarding, writing.
