Charles Barkley Quotes
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I think as an actor you're used to having to travel, so wherever the work, is you're willing to go.
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I feel like we all have our skeletons.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.
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I approach things from my feeling first. I have to get a feel for the character. I'll do that through music; I'll do it through what is naturally popping up for me when I read the script. My ideas or whatever the occupation of the character might be.
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If you're not challenged, you'll get bored.
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My mother always told me not to handle a buffalo by its tail, but always catch it by its horns. And I have used that lesson in everything in my life, including the Railways.
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I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'
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My music is the chicken soup kind. I want people to get a good feeling in their soul from these songs. Roots rock, heartland rock... whatever you want to call it is OK with me.
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I thought I could never write a proper book; I'd never done it before. But I thought I could write a sequence. Then I had a chapter. The next thing I knew I was turning acting down.
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No one is beat till he quits,No one is through till he stops,No matter how hard Failure hits,No matter how often he drops,A fellow's not down till he liesIn the dust and refuses to rise.
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'You mean,' said ‘Che Ramli, 'he is a member of the tribe of the prophet Lot.'
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Nothing happens to anyone that he can't endure. (Hays translation)
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A good basic selling idea, involvement and relevancy, of course, are as important as ever, but in the advertising din of today, unless you make yourself noticed and believed, you ain't got nothin'.
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That's the unpredictable part, and that's what worries every coach: Protect the football. That's why, when you go into a ballgame, you may be favored, but there's no guarantee you're going to win it.
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It's Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony I'm really looking forward to. Simon Rattle does it perfectly: he understands its primal rhythmic life force, and he and the wonderful Berliners make it a sheer riot of orchestral colour.
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Become a student of change. It is the only thing that will remain constant.
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We have to support our own films. If we don't, how can we expect others to support them?
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'On the Road' is another one of those, a film in which the audience has a very clear idea of who they think your character is, so you know you are asking for it. But that's the challenge.
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I started acting when I was three years old, so I was able to see the inside before seeing the wrapping; I wasn't seeing, like, the way tabloids make people.
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Somehow we can't live outside the politics of race. There's something very deep in all of us, that is taught to us when we are very, very little. Which is the disrespect and fear of the other.
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When you have an injury, you are hindered a little bit.
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Anytime a fan touches you, you have the right to beat the hell out of him.
