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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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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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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The nature of fashion is family.
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Looking at the Moonies from the normal, common-sense point of view, we certainly appear to be a bunch of crazy people!
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A few years ago, I was trying to buy a piece of land next to a house I had in Newfoundland. I discovered that the plot had been owned by a family, and the son had gone off to World War I and been killed. It began to interest me: What would have happened on that land if the son had lived, had brought up his own family there?
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Art is important because when people start to forget, art reminds them what happened. Like 'Guernica.' People would not remember the tragedy of Guernica today if it were not for that painting.
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My children are grown now, they are more independent.
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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?'
