Courtney B. Vance Quotes
I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.
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The extra pass and the extra effort on defense always get the job done.
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I went to the Technion and studied with Avram Hershko. I found it more exciting than practicing medicine.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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Animation is different from other parts. Its language is the language of caricature. Our most difficult job was to develop the cartoon's unnatural but seemingly natural anatomy for humans and animals.
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My stories are Alaska stories, and they need to be told in Alaska. Evergreen Films is located in Alaska; the company does amazing work, and I am thrilled at the prospect of working together.
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Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.
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I view myself as a male artist.
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I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it.
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I never wanted to write. I just wrote letters home from a kibbutz in Israel to reassure my parents that I was still alive and well fed and having a great time. They thought these letters were brilliant and sent them to a newspaper. So I became a writer by accident.
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I have problems with a lot of photography, particularly street photography and photojournalism - objectifying the other, finding the contempt and exoticism that you might feel within yourself or toward yourself and projecting it out to others. There can be an abusive power to photography, too.
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You always hear about delegation, but people make the mistake of delegating and not following up. I give authority, but I stay in touch. Otherwise it doesn't work.
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People in Hollywood are going make pictures where ever it's the least expensive to make them.
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I think, certainly in the more civilized societies, women's roles are growing in power all of the time.
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What happens in the music business is that if you step out of your little spot to do something else, the sand falls right into where you stood and you're gone, you're history.
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But I have fun with the fright, work with it. You have to - that's your timing, that beat of excitement. And when I go on stage, it's just like taking a step into heaven. Poof, you know? Poof - and there I am.
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In Australia, even the darkest subject matter has a little pinch of humor. A little sweet to make the sour go down.
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In my own life if I knew I was going to pass away I'd love to sit down and resolve every issue so I could go peacefully.
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When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?
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A movie is painting, it's photography, it's literature - because you have to have the screenplay - it's music. Put a different soundtrack to a comedy and it's a tragedy. A movie combines all those forms and forces you to pay attention for two hours with a group of people.
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I try to think of the social function of fiction as drawing the individual toward larger social and political questions. But I'm also very comfortable in saying that my novel - any novel - doesn't matter as much as larger questions of how we can see justice done.
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I've done a lot of theater, and I know that it's a different audience each time who doesn't know the story, and we have to tell it.
