"I always wanted to play a boxer because some of my favorite films, as a boy, were those great boxing movies, like 'Raging Bull', 'Rocky', 'The Set Up', 'Fat City and Hard Times'. I just loved those films."

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Source : "Holt McCallany and Warren Leight Interview LIGHTS OUT". Interview, collider.com. March 23, 2011.

Holt McCallany

#Hard Times Quotes #Boys Quotes #Play Quotes

“I would say that fifty percent of my show is killer comedy.”
“Terrible, it was terrible. Even today and it's been several months now you just bring it up and I tear up a little bit, terribly. You know when you're that close that long and got along as well as we did, we seldom had any serious arguments. We might have - might discuss which movie we wanted to see and what play we wanted to go to, where we ought to go for a vacation but that usually didn't last very long because we were much of the same mind all the time.”
“Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary, they have babies at such a young age precisely because they are poor--because they do not have the opportunity to acquire an education, because meaningful, well-paying jobs and creative forms of recreation are not accessible to them ... because safe, effective forms of contraception are not available to them.”
“It only says 'Leave' if you have no identification with yourself as a citizen of this country and you feel you have no obligation to pay your fair share.”
“At that time a senator who was on the Joint Committee of Atomic Energy said rather quietly, 'You know, we're having a little problem with waste these days.' I didn't know what he meant then, but I know now.”
“I believe luck is preparation meeting opportunity. If you hadnâ€™t been prepared when the opportunity came along, you wouldnâ€™t have been lucky.”
“The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him; and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.”

Source : Henry L. Stimson (2016). “On Active Services In Peace And War”, p.416, Read Books Ltd
“Always the eternal optimist, President Reagan instilled confidence and optimism at a time both were in short supply in our country.”

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