Courtney B. Vance Quotes
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.
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He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing, the sage in much, and God in everything.
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I worked with Lukas Haas a long time ago, when he was younger, and he was wonderful.
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It takes me a long time writing books. It takes me about five years to write a book, and when I'm done, the last thing I want to do is to do it again.
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Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
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Throughout his long career, Washington earned the adulation not merely of ordinary people but of the other luminaries whom we now hail as 'founding fathers.'
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It's funny - I read that women look to chiseled-faced guys for one-night stands, and to round-faced guys for marriage. When I'm rounder in the face, I like to say, 'This is my long-term look.' Or 'This is my wife-and-kids look right here.'
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Is it crazy to say that I don't often eat breakfast? But every time I go to a diner, I have to have a breakfast-type item, even if it's 11:30 at night. I love my morning eats!
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it's all been late.
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Nobody ever worked as hard as my father. My father averaged maybe four hours of sleep at night, and when you're a kid, you don't realize that. The man was tired. He was tired.
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It takes a long, hard effort and sustained determination to reduce crime. We will stay the course and we are confident that the numbers will continue to go down.
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Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.
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Serving in Congress has been more than an honor; it has been one of the most exhilarating experiences of my life... It has been a wonderful ride. It has been a wonderful journey.
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My father was a misanthrope who slept all day and stayed up all night so that he wouldn't have to see people. He ran a business with a large staff but would go there at night and leave things for them to do during the day when he wasn't there.
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I believe black characters in fiction are still revolutionary, given our long history of erasure.
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I've had a couple of long relationships. And I've had a couple of shorter relationships.
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To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.
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Many are the friendships that have found an unforseeen and sudden end on a journey, and few are those that survive it.
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The two things that could have been better is number one, to get major military force into the community almost immediately to make sure that there was law and order. Number two, we had enough helicopters to airlift food into the centers of population and those places.
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I don't dislike anybody. I love everybody.
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At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way.
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I would love to take a crack at 'Long Day's Journey Into Night.'
