Ta-Nehisi Coates Quotes

It was mostly through pop culture, through hip-hop, through Dungeons & Dragons and comic books that I acquired much of my vocabulary.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Sometimes, what's not said is just as important to the writing as what is said. As a writer, we have our voices heard. I think that, at oftentimes, the ability to allow the dialogue to recede properly into the world of the film is also a really valid sort of way to be a writer, I think.

Joel Edgerton

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If I had free time to go to Los Angeles to shoot a movie, I would rather spend it with my kids.

Stephen Colbert

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One fan wrote asking for a very specific autographed photo. He wanted me to pose in tight jeans and boots and even enclosed a sketch of how I should dress! A lot of them just say they wish they had a girlfriend like me. They're very endearing letters.

Mary Frann

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It's a weird thing when you spend your life trying to find these great scripts and great parts. You are reading scripts, you are traveling the world, you are hassling your agent. You are trying to find that script.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

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I would take up any small job on the sets, just so that I could hang around with the hope of getting noticed.

Christine Lahti

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I try not to read acting books any more, but they set a high bar for me very early on.

Brian J. Smith

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I'll even miss the Patriots fans in Foxborough, and they should miss me, because they sure did get a lot of wins off of me.

Peyton Manning

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I proved myself in Barcelona, and after I proved myself in Germany, I wanted to prove myself in England.

Pep Guardiola

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The concept of 'green jobs' or a 'green economy' is often attacked as the work of the Grimm Brothers by those wedded to the grim science of free-market economics.

Sharan Burrow

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I think there are certain technical things about acting that change between working in film and television. Everything definitely slows down and we have more time in film.

Thomas McDonell

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If our message reaches the kitchen tables, we are in good shape.

Tim Scott

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If you're making music for the U.S. Latin fan, it's important that you sing in Spanish. Even going too bilingual can backfire.

Nicky Jam

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