"To be honest, I don't necessarily think you have to be an actor to act. You don't have to be a musician to make great music. If it comes along and you put your all into it, the outcome is what's important."

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Source : Source: collider.com

Andre Benjamin

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“King and Arum are alike. One's black and one's white. That's the only difference.”
“No mistake. I shall regret the absence of your keen mind. Unfortunately it is inseparable from an extremely disturbing body.”
“There's a thing about Hollywood where there are at least a couple of guys that behind closed doors and in small circles we think of as having a magical P.T. Barnum quality. Which is to say, they may not be the most talented, and they may not be the smartest, but their movies made money or won awards, so they move ahead.”
“Obviously I've gone out of my way in my career to not look good, so it's always nice to, every once in a while, get the opposite going.”
“The sea has now changed from its natural, to river coloured water, the probable consequence of some streams falling into the bay, or into the ocean to the north of it, through the low land.”

Source : George Vancouver (1798). “A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean: And Round Theworld; in which the Coast of North-west America Has Been Carefully Examined and Accurately Surveyed”, p.210
“Being stuck is a position few of us like. We want something new but cannot let go of the old - old ideas, beliefs, habits, even thoughts. We are out of contact with our own genius. Sometimes we know we are stuck; sometimes we don't. In both cases we have to DO something.”
“I'm very stodgy. I'm always looking at old photos of California and Los Angeles, knowing that what I'm looking at is now full of houses. There used to be vacant lots in Los Angeles, now all taken up by three-storey boxes - it's all getting infilled.”
“All historical writing, even the most honest, is unconsciously subjective, since every age is bound, in spite of itself, to make the dead perform whatever tricks it finds necessary for its own peace of mind.”

Source : "The Heavenly City of the Eighteenth-Century Philosophers". Book by Carl L. Becker (Chapter II, pp. 43-44), 1932.

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