Cory Booker Quotes
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I'm not a video brat. I don't derive all my inspiration through movies. I get it from a lot of other places, too.
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It isn't what I do, but how I do it. It isn't what I say, but how I say it, and how I look when I do it and say it.
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On a large scale, people aren't going to cut back how much they use. That's a pipe dream. If anything, as the developing world gets richer, the world's going to consume more - more cars, bigger homes, more energy, more water, more food.
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I think most families have a few secrets or some strange aspect to their history. We're all fascinated by family dynamics, but I'd much rather sit in an audience and watch someone else's problems!
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What I love is dropping into someone else's life and exploring it.
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In 1949 - my father stayed on in Shanghai after the war. But in 1949, the Communists took over the whole of China, and in fact, my father was caught by the Communists in Shanghai. And he was there for about a year until he was finally able to get out.
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For me, clean fuels translates into cleaner air for Oregonians. I think that's a good thing.
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I have been doing so much. Speaking engagements... producing... developing a half-hour sitcom... working on a movie... leading acting workshops all over the world... and hosting 'My Black Is Beautiful,' an empowerment TV show I'm doing on BET for women.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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I'm having the same problems today that I had when I first started, saying that outrageous adult animation works.
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Unlike many Californians or New Yorkers, college football is a religion down south.
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One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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I think it's much harder to have a long dialogue scene than an action scene. An action scene is long, but it's not really hard. It's kind of boring, really. It looks good at the end, but to shoot it, it's not the most exciting thing.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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Singing is a prayer to me.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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I measure success depending on the brands that come to you, the opportunities that you get, also the feedback that you get from people.
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We're running this in order to give people a perspective of what the controversy's about, not to titillate.
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Acting's fun, but life's more important.
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I think the blues is the best literature that we as blacks have created since we've been here. I call it our 'sacred book.' What I've attempted to do is to mine that field, to mine those cultural ideas and attitudes and give them to my characters.
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People travel north from Barcelona, not south.
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People are always trying to draw simplistic dialectics that can capture things.
