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“When I commit to a role, I always tell myself that role is king. That's the Bible. If I start to judge my character, than it's going to influence my performance, and I don't want that. I want to find the truth in the character.”
Source : "BIG TIME IN HOLLYWOOD, FL’s Cuba Gooding Jr. Talks Career, Playing O.J". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 25, 2015.
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“When everything around you seems bleak, sick and empty - the antidote is forgiveness and love of yourself, and others, plus a dollop of gratitude.”
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“At first, I was just trying to sound like DOOM and Eminem, and then I dug out my own voice, I guess.”
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“There's nothing like active employment, I suppose, to console the afflicted.”
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“The love of dirt is among the earliest of passions, as it is the latest. Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. So long as we are dirty, we are pure. Fondness for the ground comes back to a man after he has run the round of pleasure and business, eaten dirt, and sown wild oats, drifted about the world, and taken the wind of all its moods. The love of digging in the ground (or of looking on while he pays another to dig) is as sure to come back to him, as he is sure, at last, to go under the ground, and stay there.”
Source : Charles Dudley Warner (2006). “My Summer in a Garden: Easyread Comfort Edition”, p.1, ReadHowYouWant.com
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“To love is to be vulnerable....”
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“If you decide that you're going to do only the things you know are going to work, you're going to leave a lot of opportunity on the table.”
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“It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she's something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of.”
Source : Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.383, D & M Publishers