Wyatt Cenac Quotes

There aren't a lot of roles for sleepy-eyed black dudes.

Wyatt Cenac

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There have been so few decent films involving Negroes that right away everybody expects every film to do everything. But when you make a flick, there are maybe two things you're trying to put into that flick. You can put the other things in another time.

Jim Brown

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There are repercussions to everything, even advancement and success. And I think that the repercussions to my success was the loss of my marriage.

Jill Scott

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It's ironic - people used to want to suspend me and talk about how bad my behaviour was, but now they like it when I shout and scream.

John McEnroe

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My father is a poet. He's a literary giant of this country - writes in Hindi - and also quite unique because he has a Ph.D. in English Literature. He taught at Harvard University, which is one of the most prominent universities in the country.

Amitabh Bachchan

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You go through a process of refinement and getting rid of the excesses of your early youth in terms of your excitement about what theatre can do.

Stephen Daldry

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'Purple Rain,' the album, is a great guitar record.

Tom Morello

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I have learned to pare down what I do and still be effective and strong in a role.

Mira Sorvino

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If you want to do something, go for it -you've got nothing to lose.

Louis Tomlinson

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At the end of the first Halloween, when I shot 6 bullets into Michael Myers, John Carpenter said, Let's get a shot of you looking out of the window and seeing no one lying there.

Donald Pleasence

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A very subtle difference can make the picture or not.

Annie Leibovitz

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Contempt is the weapon of the weak and a defense against one's own despised and unwanted feelings.

Alice Miller

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It felt like a pretentious fantasy to say, 'I want to be an actress.'

Pom Klementieff

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