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Louis Gossett, Jr. Quotes

After the Academy Award, well, I was left with a lot of time on my hands. I thought I'd get a lot of offers - and they didn't come.

Louis Gossett, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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Time Thought Award Hands Left Well

It definitely takes a fair bit of experience to know what's the right kind of wave and which is the wrong wave.

Experience Wave Wrong Know Kind

I have a God-given talent and I work very hard for what I do. Anybody can run fast. It's how you run fast. I pay attention to technical things now.

Work Talent Attention You Fast Run

Beginning in the 1920s and 1930s, film has been a shadow thrown over the minds of all novelists. Ever since, novelists have strained to make themselves more relevant and, whether consciously or not, novel-writing has been influenced by cinematic doctrines - by turns, embracing and defying it.

Beginning Shadow Minds More 1920s

People ask me how I am so fearless on a ladder and how I have no fear in the ring. And the answer to that question is a bit complicated. I used to have no fear, but that is no longer true. With a wife and two girls at home, I'm more afraid now than ever.

Fear Home Wife I Am People Fearless

I don't have any concerns about my weight. I've always been healthy. I eat right. I'm just a big dude. I've always been happy with the person I am. So that will never change.

Change I Am Happy Person Healthy

I think Mr. Clarke had a tendency to interfere too much with the activities of the CIA, and our leadership at the senior level let him interfere too much. So criticism from him I kind of wear as a badge of honor.

Michael Scheuer

Leadership Think Criticism Honor Him

Maybe some people have written us off, but I think the new music today has also invigorated us.

Music Today People Think New Us

Nobody can deny there is a rise of Islamic fundamentalism.

Dominique de Villepin

Rise Nobody Deny Fundamentalism

Government acquisition of food supplies in time of war is no less important than conscription. Equity is the fundamental principle applicable to both these essential phases of war administration.

Chiang Kai-shek

Time Food Government War Important

Kill Rock Stars has a willingness to really work with the artist and to be flexible with what they're doing... part of being an independent artists means having your hands in the business all the time, so they bring in a lot of ideas about it.

Work Stars Business Time Ideas Rock

Jon Stewart says that he was a little kid with a big head. He had very little athletic ability. He went out to the soccer field, and it was awful.

Soccer Kid Ability Out Head Big

There's a lot of SEALs who hate me and claim I've broken our code of silence.

Hate Silence Broken Me Claim Code

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