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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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Asa Don Brown

"There are so many moments and works that influence us in what we do. Movies, music, TV and, most importantly, the profound everydayness of our lives."

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Asa Don Brown

"Right now, I'd like to just continue on a series where I am doing good work with a balance of comedy and drama. That and do occasional features and movies."

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Asa Don Brown

"If movies are causing moral decay, then crime ought to be going up, but crime is going down."

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Asa Don Brown

"At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!"

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Asa Don Brown

"I didn't get into this so I could talk about my work, my movies. You become an actor to act."

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Asa Don Brown

"I make movies just as painters paint: I work where I can."

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Asa Don Brown

"I think the people who are making Christmas-themed movies today feel that people are more cynical about Christmas. There's more of an edge."

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Asa Don Brown

"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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Asa Don Brown

"For a number of years, I'd been around the kind of people who financed movies and the kind of people who are there to make the deals for movies. But I'd always had this naive idea that everybody wants to make movies as good as they can be, which is stupid."

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Asa Don Brown

"When we did the pilot, I sort of pictured this guy pirating a signal and then this story unfolding of him building this satellite and these robots and watching these bad movies."

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"I think the NBA players have to be held accountable in a reasonable way, just like any other professionals."

Accountability

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo."

Expectation

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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
"Black people don't have an accurate idea of their history, which has been either suppressed or distorted."

History

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"A team will always appreciate a great individual if he's willing to sacrifice for the group."

Sacrifice

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"I think the NBA will certainly survive without Michael Jordan."

Will

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body."

Soul

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics."

Boston

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

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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
"I listen to jazz mainly. Mainstream jazz."

Music

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