Omari Hardwick Quotes
That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete.
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Oh wow, you know what's wrong with all these families on TV? All these kids say stuff no kid would say. Stuff grown-ups want them to say. Man, I'd make a really realistic family. Where kids get spankings. On TV parents say, 'Oh, you shouldn't do that ever again. Now you can have ice cream.' Forget it.
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Talent is very hot.
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Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.
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Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
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Courtship is like simmering mutton. You cook for hours and hours to taste the soft meat. It doesn't happen in two seconds!
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I love church buildings, particularly cathedrals, and I like living in spaces that remind me of music or evoke that creative energy.
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One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.
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I would like to see more Bollywood films! The more stylized musicals are a new trend in the U.S. We are beginning to make musicals again after a long break, practically since the days of the studio structure, so perhaps we can learn a few things from Bollywood about this fun style of film-making.
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I've always wanted to do a period piece.
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Almost all the early Christian Fathers were opposed to the death penalty, even though it was of course standard practice across the ancient world.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a writer. I'm going to write screenplays. I'm going to write books. I'm going to write plays. That's what I'm going to do.'
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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First time I sang, I was singing Alicia Keys in the bathroom of my mom's beauty shop. I was six.
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As I grew up in that world and saw how much it affected her world and how much it affected our childhood, it made me very aware of politics. Of course, I have my own private feelings and thoughts, but I don't care to share them.
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Those who know me would tell you, 'Moily can't be cowed down.' I have plans to enhance domestic oil and gas production.
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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I think 'Rockstar' is more dear to me than any of my other films.
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If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him as less of an insult than religion.
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When you begin to write poems because you love language, because you love poetry. Something happens that makes you write poems. And the writing of poems is incredibly pleasurable and addictive.
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I've seen people who stink, but the film editor shows them just where they didn't stink. But if you're empty and manipulative on stage, it's clear.
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I wish I could say it's easy, but honestly, to get ready for a big championship is not as easy as it seems.
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That's the thing with me being a former athlete: in the way I attack characters and attack poetry is from the base of being an athlete.
