Courtney B. Vance Quotes

My parents were all about education. My mother was a librarian - she retired after 30 years - and she made sure that we were always at museums, that we went to plays.

Courtney B. Vance

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: March 12, 1960

Topics

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I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character, the courage, and the confidence to actually lead the greatest nation in the world.

Jim DeMint

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It'll keep you alive for another 10 years if you get yourself a laugh once a day: either provoke it, or look around in the wildest laboratory in the world, the public.

Jerry Lewis

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My dad's family is part British and Austrian, and my mother's family is from Goa, which is in the south of India. I looked different from everyone else, which now is such a blessing. It was harder at the beginning of my career.

Meaghan Rath

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When you're in your twenties, you're made of expectations, and when they're shattered, you don't know how to behave. The fact is if you react really outraged, you fear that you'll get dropped and feel even more terrible. But there's only a certain amount you can put up with before you become obnoxious in your own eyes, right?

Anjelica Huston

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I follow a lot of news outlets on Twitter, so I'll just go skim through the headlines and see what's going on.

Michael Che

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At hotels, you are an actress. Absolutely. You can do what you want. Go where you want. I love my home too. But I love to arrive in a hotel. They have books, chocolate, food. I put things in the little refrigerator.

Sonia Rykiel

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Somehow, magically, I've become an electronic musician, and I have a recording studio that looks like the bridge of the Enterprise.

Moby

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' Torn' is hopeful. It's a book that meets you in your pain and shows you how to move forward with life and in your walk with God.

Jud Wilhite

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Each moment is defined by a multitude of histories, the past constantly converging upon us, perpetually decaying and reforming itself on the steady pulse of now, now, now, now.

Dee Rees

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Tired is not a word in my vocabulary.

Brittany Murphy

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I get recognised in town a bit; I wouldn't say it's hindering my life in any way.

April Pearson

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Supposedly, going to war initiates you into this gnostic priesthood of people who've had a liminal experience forever separating them from civilians. Except... you go there, and it is what it is. A form of human activity as varied as any other.

Phil Klay

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