Winston Duke Quotes

I grew up under the politics of my size and my skin. I grew up under the politics of the sound of my voice and a lack of agency, or a feeling of a lack of agency, and not always being able to find myself in images that were in the media.

Winston Duke

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
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  • Birth: November 15, 1986

Topics

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Paul Taylor's 'Offenbach Overtures' has lots of zip and charm, and its pair of dueling soldiers in red, who end up starry-eyed about each other while their disgusted seconds take up the quarrel, is nonstop funny.

Robert Gottlieb

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It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.

Sophocles

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Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

Steve Prefontaine

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Actresses are just professionally lovely, aren't they?

Tom Hollander

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I've always been tough my whole life. I'm able to take a lot of punishment, and that might be an even greater asset than my offense. I'm the guy that can take your best shot, and I'm not going to go down.

Rob Van Dam

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You really can't say enough about 'Blade Runner.' For that movie to have such a long life - you can't describe what a beautiful feeling that is. Initially, the movie was out of theaters in something like two weeks. But the people that wanted it back - the fans - they really saved it.

Rutger Hauer

LifeBeautifulPeopleEnoughYou

My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.

Mitch Hedberg

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I believe that the organisers of this conference have chosen a very timely subject for our discussion - because the 21st century will confront us with an entirely new set of challenges.

Lord Robertson

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Show me a person who doesn't like to laugh and I'll show you a person with a toe tag.

Julia Roberts

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My mother left my father in their late 60s.

Dito Montiel

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I think you have to find the humanity in the character and then the deterioration is a part of the process - the journey of the character. It's like playing King Lear. You can start off as a nice old man who finishes up crazy.

David Wenham

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I had a job at this French restaurant, and I hated it. I don't like serving; I don't like getting people ketchup.

Chris Pine

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