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Lawrence Gilliard, Jr. Quotes

The plan was to go Juilliard, graduate, and then go across the street and play in the New York Philharmonic - that was the plan, anyway.

Lawrence Gilliard, Jr.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: actor
Nationality: american
Birth: September 22, 1971

Topics

New York Plan Play Go New Street

Both my parents were atheists, and my grandmother was an atheist in rural Kentucky, and so they were trying to make sure that my brother and I would be atheists, too, and it worked, which doesn't mean that they didn't teach us a lot of wonder of science and of nature and the world and all of that.

Andrew Sean Greer

Nature Science Brother Parents World

I have a 10-year track record of writing for the Jewish community.

Community Writing Jewish Track

I wanted Lillian Hellman to be perfect because I wasn't perfect myself. I really wanted a mentor.

Rosemary Mahoney

Myself Perfect Mentor Because Wanted

The average life spans of many bands are not that long, up to five years if they are lucky.

Life Long Lucky Years Average Up

Training, and every morning I have to take my dogs out into the forest. That's all I'm doing. I'm staying out of everything else. All other things that can take out my concentration and my energy from the training.

Morning Training Energy Forest Doing

Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are a crazy person. We create conflict - for a living. We do this all the time, sometimes on a weekly basis; we create horrible, incredible circumstances and then figure a way out of them. That's what we do.

Time Crazy Conflict Reality Create

Growing up the son of a director has made me very aware of the various turns that a directing career can take. Sometimes your films turn out exactly as you want. Sometimes they don't. I spent a lot of my childhood on sets. I think as a joke, my father gave me a line of dialogue in each of his films during the worst moments of my puberty.

Father Son Childhood Me Growing Up

My family are tennis coaches, and they always brought me to the tennis club. I basically had no other option than to start playing tennis.

Family Me Start Tennis Always Club

You can't read to yourself. It's your inner ear that hears a poem. If you hear a poet read his own work, it becomes very exciting. The melody is a great part of it.

Work Great Yourself You Own Poet

Since the heady days of the 2009 Inauguration, middle-class independents have grown increasingly distant from Obama. Working-class voters - always more enamored of Clinton - have grown even more wary and distrustful of the Chicagoan. Both voting blocs pose the danger of serious defection in 2012. Without their support, Obama cannot win.

Support Win Voting Serious Pose

My children are the most important thing in my life.

Life Children My Life Important Most

You reclaim your power by loving what you were once taught to hate.

Bryant H. McGill

Power Hate Anger You Loving Your

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