Courtney B. Vance Quotes
It was a natural for me to end up in the theater because I'd done a lot of reading about it.
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I will keep working hard!
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Democracy should be practiced not every six years, but every day.
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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We in the Middle East like to talk politics, we like to argue. Just look at the three prophets - Moses, Jesus and Mohammad. They are all from this small region which creates problems all the time.
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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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There's no handbook for parenting. So you walk a very fine line as a parent because you are civilizing these raw things. They will tip the coffee over and finger-paint on the table. At some point, you have to say, 'We're gonna have to clean that up because you don't paint with coffee on a table.'
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Most big popcorn movies are 'bad guy does something to good guy, good guy gets revenge on bad guy, sets the world right, and moves on.' And 'Ender's Game' is just not that simple, so it's an exciting challenge. It's a little terrifying, and let's see how audiences respond.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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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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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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If being a woman is a factor politically, it's usually not because of a conscious bias, but because women are a novelty.
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'Firewall' seems both scary and protective at the same time. And how often does that happen within one word besides 'military' and 'government?'
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I am not that thrilled about the way our records sound anyway. Don't get me wrong, I work hard on them and I want them to sound fantastic but I'm happy to have another interpretation of them anyway.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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While I have the greatest respect for the Supreme Court's members, I cannot claim familiarity with any particular judicial philosophies the justices might possess.
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On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
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There are certain people who have become better artists, but they're brilliant at marketing. I think someone who's been phenomenal like that is Madonna.
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I played hockey in North Dakota growing up and watch a lot of that.
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I was 18 when I started. I was hanging out with some friends and they asked if I had tried stand-up before. I hadn't, but I thought: 'What the hell?' So I went to an open mic night, and I liked it.
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I kind of like the idea of creating my own literature within my albums. I definitely thought about that when I started writing songs.
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Every time I watch a performance, I'm disgusted with how I've skated. It's very hurtful for me.
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It was a natural for me to end up in the theater because I'd done a lot of reading about it.
