LeVar Burton Quotes

We want a book to be a book. We'll have all the interactive bells and whistles but our intent is to engage young people in reading, not to show them a movie.

LeVar Burton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: February 16, 1957

Topics

PeopleBookReadingYoungWantShow

I was in 'Rent,' for God's sake. The closest we came to stunts was dancing on a table.

Jesse L. Martin

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I feel like I've lived about three or four different lives.

Jennifer Hudson

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My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics.

Matthew Goode

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I feel like the second child feels like they have to do everything faster.

Tori Spelling

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Writing a screenplay's not rocket science, but I was in a bar, and the bartender came up to me and said, 'I saw 'Night at the Museum,' and the thing about him and his kid brought me and my kid together.' Something like that... it's like, 'Oh, right. That's why we're doing it.'

Robert Ben Garant

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I try not to look back at anything I do. I avoid it like the plague.

RJ Mitte

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Anybody can have a birthday. It requires nothing. Murderers have birthdays. It's the opposite of anything that I believe in. And I don't like at work where you stop everything to sing 'Happy Birthday' to someone. I feel like that's for children.

Mindy Kaling

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People forget who they are; they always remain with an identity which is not the real self. It is just a projected self which does not exist, but they identify with this projected self appearance.

Lobsang Tenzin

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It used to be that you could do these nuggets of a movie and it would attach itself in terms of credibility to your work and the style of work that you did, that people would be interested and curious about you and your work as an actor.

Jared Harris

WorkStyleCuriousPeopleYouActor

Knowledge is very important and one of the few things that accompanies us into the next life.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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I never want to be seen in my boxer shorts ever again.

Christian Cooke

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My business partner gave me a drone, a small helicopter you pilot with an iPhone, and also it has a camera so you can see what it sees on the iPhone. Great fun. I fly it outside in Portugal. It's wonderful to oversee gardens.

Christian Louboutin

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