Forest Whitaker Quotes
I want a director who can let me feel that he's listening and watching and that he's got me covered. That security is really important for me because sometimes you go into a vulnerable space, and you want to be able to look to somebody because you get insecure: 'Did I do that right?'
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I don't have a wallet. I carry my driver's license and a couple of credit cards in my phone. That, and a money clip.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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I enjoyed the administrative work because it involved working with Congress, city council, and the mayor. I had never been a politician so it was fun - learning political maneuvering.
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I just have to go out and fight my fight and fight to win.
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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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My agent and I put out my proposal one Thursday afternoon in August, 1998. Publishers started bidding immediately, and that process progressed for a few days.
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Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.
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Anybody who plays the stock market not as an insider is like a man buying cows in the moonlight.
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I began to work the stage and get the audience into it. I also learned how to have fun out there. It is something I will never forget.
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The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.
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I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.
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Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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I don't want to be on the Internet.
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I consider myself more of a cultural Jew; I'm not religious in any way.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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Overall, one of the things that excites me most about self-publishing is that the highest-value use of my time in promoting the books will be found in writing more of them.
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Americans should never believe, even incorrectly, that one's criminal activity will go unpunished simply because it was committed on behalf of a corporation.
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The greatest thing we can do is to give each other a safe space to truly, truly be ourselves in the world.
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Optimism - even, and perhaps especially in the face of difficulty - has long been an American hallmark.
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I did a lot of little girl groups here and there just to get more comfortable on stage. When you're in girl groups, it's a lot different because if you mess up, there's someone on stage to back you up, and finally I got to a point where I knew I could do it on my own.
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In many ways, our homes act as one big drain that, through our daily relationship with water, carries many toxic substances into our waterways and the environment.
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One of the biggest challenges facing the globe is the gap that exists in the wealth and standards of living enjoyed by the world's nations.
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I want a director who can let me feel that he's listening and watching and that he's got me covered. That security is really important for me because sometimes you go into a vulnerable space, and you want to be able to look to somebody because you get insecure: 'Did I do that right?'
