Courtney B. Vance Quotes
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I am a genius who has written poems that will survive with the best of Shakespeare, Wordsworth and Keats.
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I have a bronze statue of myself, naked. I have these really big curls and water comes out of every curl. It's hot.
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It is all very well and it sounds very seductive to say we are going to have harmonisation of regulations, but for example the way that funds are distributed around the states these days, you are positively penalised if you actually want to have say a lower payroll tax or sort of conditions.
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I think it must be so hard to start your career with everyone going on about how gorgeous you are. To be in that bracket must be so pressurised.
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I was never that famous, but I do think going to college and really getting away from the business and taking a true break is incredibly, incredibly important if you start acting at a young age.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
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I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.
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I'm a terrific mimic, and you can feel my funny bone.
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I was young and felt like it was opportunity 'cause they were moving units back then on the underground scene.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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Cynicism, I contend, is the wailing of someone who believes that things are, or should be, or could be, much, much better than they are.
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I look a lot like my father and his mother.
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I'm a believer in home-made recipes and concoctions, so I stick to natural or herbal products as much as I can. I also meditate regularly to de-stress.
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A critic is a reader who ruminates. Thus, he should have more than one stomach.
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Almost all Iraqis with any previous experience in the intelligence business are Sunni Arab, increasing the risk of penetration of the new intelligence apparatus by the insurgency.
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Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion.
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I grew up on a wide range of stuff. OutKast, they been around for over 20 years, and some of the L.A. cats like Defari, Dilated Peoples and Likwit Crew. I was always going to these shows and catching the KRS-One tennis ball, as he would throw those out, EPMD. I could go on and on.
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I just loved being divorced from my own wretchedness.
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I've done episodic television and some other things that have been written by other people.
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One thing I've always been taught at the defensive end is you hit first. In life, you throw the first punch; you don't get punched first. It's the same on defense: You've got to hit first. Do your work early. That's what I was always taught. If you don't do your work early, you're done.
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It's not easy to retire at 31. In one respect I was glad I was done. But after a few years of having fun, I got a little restless. When you're 33, 34, and you don't have a focus, you can get kind of lost. As a man, you feel a little bit unfulfilled.
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I paint in order not to cry.
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I've done a lot of movies, but my favorite was 'Blind Faith.'
