Ving Rhames Quotes

I've always been taught to just play the truth of the situation. If comedy comes out of that, or drama, whatever comes out of it, at least I'm playing the truth of the moment-to-moment reality.

Ving Rhames

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: actor
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: May 12, 1959

Topics

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A lot of my upbringing was about denying or fretting or evading.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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Ironically, in today's marketplace successful nonfiction has to be unbelievable, while successful fiction must be believable.

Jerry B. Jenkins

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It has taken Thomas Harris 11 years to publish the sequel to 'The Silence of the Lambs,' which suggests that while everyone was desperate to read it, he was not desperate to write it.

Jeff Giles

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Children themselves know they are being cheated. Ultimately we owe it to our children. They are in school for 190 days a year. Every moment they spend learning is precious. If a year goes by and they are not being stretched and excited, that blights their life.

Michael Gove

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I happen to think Donald Trump is crazy, but that's not an economic message.

Tom Perez

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My first ideas of human in vitro fertilization (IVF) arose with my Ph.D. in Edinburgh University in the early 1950s. Supervised by Alan Beatty, my research was based on his work on altering chromosomal complements in mouse embryos.

Robert Edwards

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Our mothers are racked with the pains of our physical birth; we ourselves suffer the longer pains of our spiritual growth.

Mary Antin

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Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are undergoing the moral equivalent of climate change and no one is talking about it.

Jonathan Sacks

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I'm too short to host a late-night talk show. It's like the bar at an amusement-park ride. You have to be six foot two or over.

Jon Stewart

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I love drama. I love to play an arc.

Dee Wallace

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One has to take initiative in life to achieve what he or she wants.

Donald Johanson

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I'm not about talking and finger-pointing and complaining. I'm about getting things done.

Christine Quinn

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