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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

"My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay."

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldn't have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay."

Movies

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"It's hard for young players to see the big picture. They just see three or four years down the road."

Road

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"I think someone should explain to the child that it's OK to make mistakes. That's how we learn. When we compete, we make mistakes."

Mistake

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"I'm still my parent's child, I'm still me, but I made a choice. I evolved into Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. I think it has to do with evolution."

Choice

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"In athletics there's always been a willingness to cheat if it looks like you're not cheating. I think that's just a quirk of human nature."

Nature

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"When I was a kid, no one would believe anything positive that you could say about black people. That's a terrible burden."

Positive

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"I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice."

Sacrifice

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"Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team."

College

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"As a parent, I have a job as a role model to my children, and by extension, to other young people."

People

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing."

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Aberjhani

"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

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Aberjhani

"The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies."

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Aberjhani

"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

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Aberjhani

"I like being in movies that have a great story. I'm not so interested in being a Hollywood star. It's a job, you know. When you wake up at six in the morning every day for a week, it feels like hard work."

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Aberjhani

"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."

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Aberjhani

"That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years."

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Aberjhani

"I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other."

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"Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen."

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"Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make."

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"Movies are nice, but there are very few roles for women and most of them are sluts or something."

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