Chadwick Boseman Quotes
I thought I would draw or paint or be an architect. I was always drawing portraits. My mom put me in art classes in the summer.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.
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My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
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I don't remember anybody's name. How do you think the 'dahling' thing got started?
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Investors tend to discover 'hot' mutual fund managers just after a successful run and just before the inescapable force of mean reversion is about to kick in.
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Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.
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I used to watch movies - silent movies - and stock companies and theater whenever I could.
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I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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I think it's difficult to do fashion for men, because either you become very over-homosexual fashion or very boring fashion. You don't want a boy who looks 15 in a little pair of shorts with some strange art... But to see just a jacket and tie is boring.
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The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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I think that Amanda Nunes and Julianna Pena and Valentina Shevchenko... they've showed how much this level has gone up in female fighting in a very short period of time.
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Playing a character for four years, in people's minds, that's who you are.
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The people are more important than the food. We want a person to be as successful as he can be, and it works the other way around, too.
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Short-lived people, people who could die, did not know what enemies loneliness and boredom could be.
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My mom was very much the product of a very paternalistic, deep-southern culture, but also a repressed feminist. Her way of being defiant was to raise us to be rebellious ourselves - basically, the opposite of who she had to be in her own life.
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Life is complicated, and art has the right to be complicated, too. I don't like films that simplify.
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I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.
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Art exists only to communicate a spiritual message.
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I thought I would draw or paint or be an architect. I was always drawing portraits. My mom put me in art classes in the summer.
