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As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm.

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I ad lib. I've gotta bring my own into it.
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Every little job becomes a dream, and you don't recall it anymore, and maybe you might have a deja vu moment, but it's like something you dreamed earlier.
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I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power.
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So I show appreciation for the little gifts that have been handed to me.
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We call the Creator father, because we rely upon Him to protect us, guide us, feed us, keep us warm, to discipline us and all those things. I try to take my cue from the Creator, with regard to my children.
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We both can be the most beautiful and benevolent creatures on the planet, but then there's another side that can be as harsh and as ugly as the darkest thing you could imagine seeing.
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The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish.
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I like to watch mankind in its futile attempt to understand the unknown, when they don't even understand that which they know.
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I can't tell you if one day I'll be standing up there with an Oscar or directing, but I am going to be the best human being I possibly can.
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Don't just view me as an actor.
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I'm trying to make enough money where I can be financially independent and be able to go and just pursue that thing that everybody really needs, just pursue my family and the cause of my family.
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In every person we meet there's this little piece of God in them and that's who you talk to. And that's the only person that you allow to talk to you. When something else is speaking, you walk away from that. If it's not good, if it's not love, you walk away from it.
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The only thing that really matters in the initial part of my career, the worst mistake I've ever made was try to do things to please the audience thinking how the audience is going to respond if I do this.
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My future's about trying to be a better man.
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The purpose of my life is being a father to my kids and being a husband to my wife.
Terrence Howard
As a child our dreams got scattered all about and all our future prospects got scattered to so many places, and we spend our lives trying to find the little pieces that make up our lives and make up the dreams that we had as a child that got blown away in the windstorm.
Terrence Howard
I don't think President Obama has been that revolutionary in reaching out to ethnic communities. President Reagan did a lot for the black community that people don't realize.
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When you hear buzz around the beehive, you know they're making honey in there.
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And when I stopped doing that and started thinking about what feels natural and what feels right to me and started pleasing myself, then it became good.
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Every role you play is literally - and I've said this before - every single role that you play, the only way you can connect to that character is because that was a piece of you that was scattered around that yard, almost like we got caught up in some whirlwind.
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I don't have any love for this business or the game or for acting. This is my day job.
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All the things we have to remember, and I've mentioned this before, is that we're all artists.
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And, so yeah, I'll always want to work in independent films because you're not forced into a category or a formula.
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Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.
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And I'm very surprised that all this stuff actually worked out to where I could have a career in film, gain the benefit of my education, and be thankful that I was able to break into my craft as an actor.
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And right now I may just be living inside the heart of the body, and I one day hope to move to the brain.
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I just wanted to be a scientist.
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No, most of the decisions that I make with regard to taking roles, I just look for something that's challenging, something that I think I can accomplish, you know.
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Every little job becomes a dream and you dont recall it anymore and maybe you might have a deja vu moment but its like something you dreamed earlier.
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One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
E. V. Lucas
My life has been a continuous fulfillment of dreams. It appears that everything I saw and did has a new, and perhaps, more significant meaning, every time I see it. The earth is good. It is a privilege to live thereon.
Liberty Hyde Bailey
Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.
Marcus Fabius Quintilian
We don't have an eternity to realize our dreams, only the time we are here.
Susan Taylor
Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
Victoria Woodhull
The world is seldom what it seems; to man, who dimly sees, realities appear as dreams, and dreams realities.
Samuel Johnson
I worked on my voice for Sweet Dreams, but only to match my speaking voice to Patsy's actual singing voice. That was my way into that character.
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In my dreams, I could be a Princess, and that's what I was. Like most little girls, I believed nothing less than a Prince could make my dreams come true.
Loretta Young
The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
Theodore Roosevelt
The name Air Supply sort of came from nowhere. I get a lot of my things in dreams and I just had a dream about it one night, and I woke up and said that's just got to be the name. That was in 1975.
Graham Russell
Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages.
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War is eternity jammed into frantic minutes that will fill a lifetime with dreams and nightmares.
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All books are either dreams or swords, you can cut, or you can drug, with words.
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