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"My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through everything, now he was up, he was happy, he was filled with his dream."
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"Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive."
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"Never get angry. If you have to get angry, get angry at yourself and not at others."
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"Getting angry means setting fire to your own wealth."
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"Blow wind and crack your cheeks. Rage! Blow!"
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"Anger is a ghost.Human is the host."
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"Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts."
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"I hope he died of intestinal cancer in a part of the world where morphine is as of yet undiscovered."
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"Anger is one of the sinews of the soul."
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"If you become angry with someone today, it is a discharge kashaya (karma effect of anger-pride-deceit-greed). But in that [discharge karma] your intent is for it, which "charges a [new] karmic seed."
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"Howl, howl, howl, howl! O, you are men of stones!"
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"It would be like the films I've seen where wardens would decide to be in a jail cell for a week, to get a sense of what it would be like to be a prisoner."
Sense
"I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance."
Dance
"You know the first time I sat in the chair I felt anything but up, it was very emotional for me. I had a chair in my hotel room, a chair at rehearsal, and I was trying to spend as much time as I could in the chair."
Time
"I can remember feeling very angry, and saying no! I can do it myself! From that point of view it was very emotional for me to get myself to the point to sit in the chair and be "up"."
Feelings
"I read the script, and I knew it was a good part. It was written for a white actor. That's what I'm up against - I have to try to make roles happen for me that aren't written black."
Actor
"Once I got to be about twenty-five, I got interested in the music of the time. I started smokin' dope, I started drinking, I started slowing down and trying to find myself. I didn't want to work in nightclubs."
Music
"It turned out to be exactly that, but more challenging emotionally. I looked at it in a more physical way, having to act in a chair and move around. But it really was more emotionally challenging."
Act
"I wanted to make a movie, because the whole life of the movies appealed to me. You work hard for three or four months, then you don't work at all for a couple of months."
Life
"They told me that the hotels had maybe two rooms set up for people with disabilities, but if they got there too late, and didn't get one of these rooms, they couldn't take a shower. The room wasn't hooked up for them, or maybe the sink was too high."
People
"I never wanted to be a star, I just wanted to get work."
Work
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