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"What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat."

"No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious."

"The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious."

"When somebody says that all statements are false, the obvious problem is that as an assertion it's self-defeating."

"What has 'theology' ever said that is of the smallest use to anybody? When has 'theology' ever said anything that is demonstrably true and is not obvious? What makes you think that 'theology' is a subject at all?"

"Sometimes I read a script and it's obvious from early on that it's one where the suspension of disbelief has to develop strongly from page one. Some are more reality-based."

"If we win, someone else loses. But if someone else loses, we lose. Which is a point we're not getting. The new spirituality will make this just painfully obvious."

"There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly."

"I wanted to use what I was, to be what I was born to be - not to have a 'career', but to be that straightforward obvious unmistakable animal, a writer."

"It is obvious that different individuals require different things to live good, healthy, and virtuous lives."
Explore more quotes by John Amos

"They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again, I got cast in a little program called Roots, and as they would say, the rest is history."

"It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this stereotype."

"I could have begged. They made it obvious to me that if I wanted to come back and be a good boy... but I'd rather be in Roots than Good Times."
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