Forest Whitaker Quotes
It's a contract of connection to be in the same space and watch and listen to stories and be caught in them. When you're in a theater, your brain expands because somebody in the theater may do something or respond to something that you wouldn't have.
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That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
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There are some parts of my life that are wonderful, and it's amazing to get to go to cool events and award shows and things like that, but I think the outside perception is that your life just changes overnight and you wear Dolce and Gabanna suits and drive a Mercedes. But life's just not like that.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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There are so few movies that still cast on chemistry. Now it's often, like, this person's movies make this amount of money, and this person's movie makes that amount of money, so let's put them together.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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I have been extremely lucky with reviewers and critics throughout my career.
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Career is too pompous a word. It was a job, and I have always felt privileged to be paid for what I love doing.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Did you really think I would sell you out?
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During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.
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The word 'revolution' first brings to mind violent upheavals in the state, but ideas of revolution in science, and of political revolution, are almost coeval. The word once meant only a revolving, a circular return to an origin, as when we speak of revolutions per minute or the revolution of the planets about the sun.
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Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity.
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I worked from 12 to 17, six years in a bakery. I was a pastry cook.
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You just have to be yourself and make music you feel from your gut, and hopefully, your audience will respond.
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
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A Sunday school is a prison in which children do penance for the evil conscience of their parents.
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Mahindra is a very natural fit for me. Firstly it is a product that is owned, operated and managed out of India. So there’s that great connection to that link between Australia and India.
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I didn't have any desire I might have had 10 years ago to shoot every single word that I wrote.
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Part of what dressing for yourself means requires your understanding that the scrutiny of others is frankly irrelevant.
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After childhood, the senses specialize via the channels of dominant technologies and social weaponries.
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It's a contract of connection to be in the same space and watch and listen to stories and be caught in them. When you're in a theater, your brain expands because somebody in the theater may do something or respond to something that you wouldn't have.
