"For lack of any clearer idea, I just started acting one day. It had been in the back of my head for a while, but I think in some ways I was afraid to do it, and finally I just stepped up."

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Jeffrey Wright

#Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes #One Day Quotes

“My favorite monologue in the book is Kate Harrington's story of her relationship with Truman.”
“But druggies don't keep their looks any longer than they keep their promises.”
“If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.”
“If things had been different, she would be in Carolyn's place right now. She didn't want that sort of existence, but there was something so attractive about the security of feeling like you had stopped moving toward your life, and actually arrived.”

Source : J. Courtney Sullivan (2009). “Commencement”, p.201, Vintage
“Basically I was no different than a rock star or a movie star. I was a coke star.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“The biggest thing I don’t like about New York are the foreigners. You can walk an entire block in Times Square and not hear anybody speaking English. Asians and Koreans and Vietnamese and Indians and Russians and Spanish people and everything up there. How the hell did they get in this country?”

Source : "At Full Blast Shooting outrageously from the lip, Braves closer John Rocker bangs away at his favorite targets: the Mets, their fans, their city and just about everyone in it". Interview with Jeff Pearlman, www.si.com. December 27, 1999.
“It's a common theme around the city of New Orleans; we're resilient people because we have to be. We love this place with all of our heart and all of our soul and I just wanted to try to do something that I could to help make it better.”

Source : "New Orleans Mayor-elect Mitch Landrieu". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 26, 2010.
“There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul.”

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