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Roger Ross Williams Quotes

I grew up poor, black, and working class.

Roger Ross Williams

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: producer
Nationality: american
Birth: September 16, 1970

Topics

Black Class Poor Up Working Grew

It's very hard to live with yourself if you don't stick with your moral code.

Live Yourself You Moral Hard Stick

I've been writing plays since the seventies and only came to moviemaking when I basically realized that I needed some money to pay the rent. I started to watch films with an eye to figuring out how to write them.

John Patrick Shanley

Money Writing Eye Rent Write Pay

I always kind of wanted to go into healthcare.

Ann Marie Buerkle

Healthcare Go Kind Always Wanted

We need to focus our energies there, not these broad, blanket, kind of statements that will make it harder for us to deal with ISIS. We need to deal with ISIS in the caliphate. We need a strategy to destroy ISIS there. You can't do that without the cooperation of the Muslim world because they're as threatened as we are.

Focus World Strategy You Cooperation

My fight-or-flight mechanism... had served me well in Gaza, in Afghanistan, and all the places I'd been.

Me Places Afghanistan Well Been Had

I like to do things that are shocking or challenging for the sake of comedy.

Comedy Things Like Shocking Sake

Our objectives are clear. Let's keep the government open and protect our constituents.

Government Protect Open Keep Clear

Notice the small things. The rewards are inversely proportional.

Small Things Small Things Rewards

Mostly I do Iyengar. I like anything that's hard enough to make me cry in class. I like to be pushed over my limit and broken down a little bit.

Broken Me Enough Down Cry Class

Life and people are complex. A writer as an artist doesn't have the personality of a politician. We don't see the world that simply.

Joyce Carol Oates

Life Personality People World Artist

There are so many talented young actors in the industry. I'm just happy to have a job!

Job Happy Young Industry Just Many

There is no real teacher who in practice does not believe in the existence of the soul, or in a magic that acts on it through speech.

Teacher Soul Practice Believe Magic

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