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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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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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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Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted; the indifference of those who should have known better; the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most; that has made it possible for evil to triumph.
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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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If I do decide to review a product, I sometimes negotiate with a company the timing of the review but never its outcome or tone. I sometimes strive to be the first to publish a review, but I never promise a good review in exchange for that timing.
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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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As a teenager, I had big breasts for my age, and my friends cracked on me a lot.
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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 era of nuclear terrorism has arrived.
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For decades in America, there has been an effort to ensure that the rights of those who are not sane are the same as the rights of those who are.
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I am not religious in the dogmatic sense … I neither believe nor disbelieve in anything.
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When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you'd been the only man in the world.
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We comfort ourselves by reliving memories of protection. Something closed must retain our memories, while leaving them their original value as images. Memories of the outside world will never have the same tonality as those of home and, by recalling these memories, we add to our store of dreams; we are never real historians, but always near poets, and our emotion is perhaps nothing but an expression of a poetry that was lost.
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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.
