Louis Gossett, Jr. Quotes

We started the family Bible after slavery was abolished. My great-grandmother remembered the Bible being started, which meant that she was a slave as a young girl. When she died, the Bible was at least 105 years old, so she must have been nearly 115 years old. Her daughter, my grandmother, died at 97, and her husband at 98.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 27, 1936

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The lessons of slushing and editing build up over time, and you're not necessarily thinking about them while you're working, but they're in the back of your mind, probably influencing your choices.

Ann Leckie

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The kind of work I do, there's usually a lot of money on the line; there are jobs on the line. It's not a world that lends itself to everyone being friendly all the time. We're certainly not sitting around holding hands singing 'Kumbaya.'

Michael Avenatti

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I have planted my flag in my comedy being useful for social change.

Amanda Seales

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If the store were your own business, you'd escort the customer to a product's location in the store and refer to the customer by name.

Steven Burd

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The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression.

Tracy Kidder

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I eat carefully because people don't want to see a large person judging cakes. They'll think to themselves, 'That's what happens when you eat cake.'

Mary Berry

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The action pictures I've been typically involved with, when somebody gets punched, you really feel the punching, and when somebody gets shot, you really feel the shot.

Lorenzo di Bonaventura

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The U.S. is not great at defense, but in my travels overseas, I realized that everyone else is even worse.

Dmitri Alperovitch

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My favorite sport is baseball; my cousin is pitcher Heath Bell.

Drake Bell

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I'm patient with crossword puzzles and the most impatient golfer.

Brett Hull

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There's always a slight tension when you sell a book to Hollywood, especially a nonfiction book. The author wants his story told intact; the nonfiction author wants it told accurately.

Bryan Burrough

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We're not, like, hard men.

Winston Marshall

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