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"Let me tell you about being executive producer. It is not a job, it's a title. Don't go around asking executive producers what they do because they don't do anything, alright?"
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"One cannot be deeply responsive to the world without being saddened very often."
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Personal Development

"If you are not being bullied all I would say - cause I like to talk about the other side of it as well - is you know, be someone that nurtures, and if there's someone in your class that maybe doesn't have a lot of friends, be the person that sits with them in the cafeteria sometimes; be the bigger person."
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"It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
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"He not busy being born is busy dying."
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"Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her radar."
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"Initiative is doing the right thing without being told."
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"Being is more important than doing."
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"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being."
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"You can watch any episode you want and have a compelling story being told."
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"Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent."
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"My approach to acting is that I am totally intuitive. I read the script and I get it. If I don't get it, I can't do it."
Acting

"You're going to relegate my history to a month."
History

"I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving."
People

"As you grow in this business, you learn how to do more with less."
Business

"Black history is American history."
History

"I'm not intimidated by lead roles. I'm better in them. I don't feel pressure. I feel released at times like that. That's what I'm born to do."
Pressure

"Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up."
Food

"I can only be so long without work before I start getting antsy."
Work

"There's no mystery to it. Nothing more complicated than learning lines and putting on a costume."
Learning

"I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in."
People
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