Courtney B. Vance Quotes
I think if you just hang in there long enough and keep doing what you know is your sweet spot, I think the world eventually catches up to you.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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I don't know what the instinct is, to save every report card, every half-sentence scribbled note, but my mother did it pretty effectively, and I've done it to a fare-thee-well.
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I am a night owl. I always have been... and I'd like to think I always will be, although surely having children will put a stop to my nightly affairs with myself.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.
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I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.
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People ask how could I be so conservative. Well, I was born to people raised in 1889.
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Other people pull off amazing festivals and events and things like that. I think ours is a little bit different, and that's what makes us distinct.
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I like to do Pilates.
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This is my spiritual journey through life, my way of making sense of the world. I don't need permission from anyone or accolades from anyone; it is completely internal.
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Too clever is dumb.
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Despite all the media coverage, glitz and glam of hedge funds, they have not done well for their investors. They have high - some say excessively high - fees; their short- and long-term performance has been poor.
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People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.
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'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.
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The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.
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Tahir Pasha assigned me a room when I was staying in his residence, and every night before sleeping, I would spend around three hours going over the books I had memorized. It would take me three months to go through the lot. Thanks be to God, all those works became steps ascending to the truths of the Qur'an.
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The AEC scientists were so narrowly focused on arming the United States for nuclear war that they failed to perceive facts - even widely known ones - that were outside their limited field of vision.
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I tend to really duck down and make myself smaller than I already am.
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When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
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I've always thought that we are what we remember, and the less we remember, the less we are.
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You have to believe in yourself and always strive for the best. Whether that is getting the best actor, the most talented cinematographer, or the best location for your story, you have to have the hunger to want it and be willing to do what it takes to get it. A filmmaker should never be satisfied with their work. There should always be something that they want to improve on.
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Airtight allegiance to place could make you a loser, left behind by the great sweep of a monochromatic, generalist world.
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I think if you just hang in there long enough and keep doing what you know is your sweet spot, I think the world eventually catches up to you.
