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+ The first affirmation I need is really my
own. I don't look beyond that. I don't read
what's written about it. For me the fun is
making the film. |
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+ To learn the psychic's life, I spent time
with the real Allison
DuBois. The beauty of Allison is she encourages
people to be skeptical. She just hopes they
can keep an open mind and simply entertain
the idea that anything is possible. |
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+ I haven't been to church in thirteen years,
but I'm better prepared for heaven than most
of those that haven't missed a day. |
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+ There's a fine line between the Method actor
and the schizophrenic. |
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+ I don't believe in happy endings, but I
do believe in happy travels, because ultimately,
you die at a very young age, or you live long
enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean
thing, life. |
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+ Thank you for the tragedy. I need it for
my art. |
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+ Celebrity is death.. celebrity.. that's
the worst thing that can happen to an actor. |
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+ I opened the door for a lot of people, and
they just ran through and left me holding
the knob. |
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+ There is a certain combination of anarchy
and discipline in the way I work. |
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+ With any part you play, there is a certain
amount of yourself in it. There has to be,
otherwise it's just not acting. It's lying. |
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+ A man is a success if he gets up in the
morning and gets to bed at night, and in between
he does what he wants to do. |
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+ I took on boxing just to get the stress
out. Plus I chilled out a lot as far as the
drinking and the drugs and all that stuff.
Just chillin' out on that made me see things
a lot clearer and learn to rationalize a lot
more. |
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+ Listening to music, someone’s gone
ahead making a wind pattern and you’re
following in the shadow of that pattern and
moving through it. When you’re in the
front singing, you’re the beginning. |
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+ Sometimes I think to talk too much about
music almost cheapens it. |
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+ My goal in life is to give to the world
what I was lucky to receive.. the ecstasy
of divine union through my music and my dance. |
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+ People will say what they want to say, and
it's okay. And my life will go on, and I need
to focus on my life. So, do I need to defend
that I’m a decent woman? I sure hope
I don't. I know I am. |
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+ Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on
the permission of another. |
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+ I would have been an athlete, but I had
a lot of childhood illnesses that developed
a solitude and a deepening and fostered "artisticness." |
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+ Success makes so many people hate you. I
wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful
to enjoy success without seeing envy in the
eyes of those around you. |
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+ O great creator of being grant us one more
hour to perform our art and perfect our lives. |
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+ Once you've been really "bad"
in a movie, there's a certain kind of fearlessness
you develop. |
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+ Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out
for a time, but it ain't going away. |
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+ People know me for my love of food, but
I have so much more I want to share. |
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+ I demand perfection in what I do and I practice
very hard before I give a concert.. sometimes
three to six hours a day. |
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+ I'm on TV now. It's my job to be repetitive.
My job. My Job. Repetitiveness is my job. |
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+ That's it! You people have stood in my way
long enough. I'm going to clown college! |
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+ Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson
lived alone, and she wrote some of the most
beautiful poetry the world has ever known..
then went crazy as a loon. |
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+ There has to be more life than just what
we see Lisa, everyone needs something to believe
in. |
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+ I was drawn to music that addressed the
spirit, probably because my own needed to
be addressed. |
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+ One thing I don't feel is separation from
the crowd. I don't feel like we're speaking
from a platform, I feel like we are communicating
on the same level. |
| Denzel
Washington born 1954 |
:::
american actor :::
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+ For whatever reason, God has blessed me
with the ability, put me in a position to
make these leaps and bounds. I'm fulfilling
my part of the bargain, which is to give back
and be a positive influence on others. That's
all you can do; take what you've been given
and spread it around. |
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+ You know one of the things about going from
modeling to acting is it's so much more fulfilling.
With modeling, you get your picture taken,
which is great, good for you, you know? But
in acting, you're able to reach in and show
a little bit more of yourself. |
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+ On stage you're free. You can say and do
things that if you said and did any place
else, you'd be arrested. |
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