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Stax was rejoicing in the difference in who we are, and that's what you see in the film.
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I was a rapper and a DJ, and if you wanted to be involved in hip-hop, you had to be involved in the sonic, the kinetic and the visual aspects. The visual was graffiti.
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You don't do things right once in a while. You do things right all the time.
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You can tell if you're going to be into a script within the first five or ten pages - if I'm not completely engaged by page 20, I just have to give up on it.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
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You just don't see the same type of all-purpose entertainers nowadays.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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You have to like your character, because if you don't, no one else will either.
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You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
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I think that's what is so cool about performing. When there is a show to do, you get up there and do it.
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If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.
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If a topic hits me, I'll start going on it. But you can't force it.
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When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
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Don't let other people tell you what you want.
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Once you do one bad guy, usually all you get offered is bad guys.
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If I ever have children of my own, they will read 'Matilda.' They will watch the movie. And you can bet they will see 'Matilda: The Musical.'
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You know, we have to take these characters - who, granted, have their separate personalities but, on a lot of levels, are pretty two-dimensional - and make them into people with flaws, with insecurities.
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I'm a constant learner. You need to be a constant student because things change and you have to change and grow. And I emphasize the word 'grow.'
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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I guess they're tough jokes. But there's lots of things you either laugh or cry at. And you just can't cry.
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The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.
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How does one endure in a place they shouldn't be condemned to live in? You could take that same question and apply it to any number of neighborhoods in any number of cities.
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My grandpa would come in with water and flick it on our faces at 6 A.M. and be like, 'If you don't get up to feed the horses, you don't get to ride them.' We'd get up.
