Charles Barkley Quotes
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In reality, throughout your career, you have to make yourself interesting enough for people to be waiting to see your films. In my case, people are longing to see what I come out with next. That's my success.
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I had been playing really interesting roles before I got great roles. Little ones - 'The Crying Game' I loved working on, and then 'Bird,' 'Ghost Dog,' so many films.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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We can build the fence. We can triple the border patrol. We can end sanctuary cities by cutting off funding to them. We can end welfare for those here illegally.
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All who consult on doubtful matters, should be void of hatred, friendship, anger, and pity.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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Some people are cool with the fact that their bodies bear witness to this great thing they produced, their children, and I understand that. But on a personal level, it makes me feel better that my breasts are not down to my knees when I'm undressed in front of my husband.
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It may not always be easy, convenient, or politically correct to stand for truth and right, but it is the right thing to do. Always.
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I like things simple.
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If you live through the initial stage of fame and get past it, and remember thats not who you are. If you live past that, then you have a hope of maybe learning how to spell the word artist.
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The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.
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You are not alone with a guy until you are a proper age. You don't go to certain levels with men until you are married or you have a certain relationship.
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Creating a role is an interesting thing - each show or each situation is different.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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It may be that Tolstoy and Virginia Woolf were sitting around fretting about their Amazon reviews or their pre-pub whatever, but I kind of doubt it. I don't think that's how the work probably got made.
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I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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For gay people, we learned about our lives in secrecy and a lot of fear.
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I know why people lie to themselves in life, but I'll never understand the appeal of the dishonest theater where the actor doesn't make some earnest attempt to include their own honest humanity in their collaboration with an author. It's so ugly to me that it hurts sometimes to see it happen.
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Prayer is the key to success. Not to pray is to fail. To pray aright is never to fail.
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The knife of corruption endangered the life of New York City. The scalpel of the law is making us well again.
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Buying coffee on the street instead of in a Starbucks is the poor man's way to get rich. In other words, you will never get rich by scratching out ten cents from your dollar.
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How did I get to Hollywood? By train.
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I'm not going to get upset because somebody said something bad about me.
