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" I wanted to look at them because I feel, internally, that I am an ordinary person who has had an extraordinary life. "

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" The journey has been incredible from its beginning. "

" My mother was the most amazing person. She taught me to be kind to other women. She believed in family. She was with my father from the first day they met. All that I am, she taught me. "

" I get offered work these days. "

" I had to satisfy the action fans, the romantic fans, the intellectual fans. It was a terrific burden. "

" I wanted to explore the values that are at work, underpinning my life. "

" If the screen does not make room for me in the structure of their screenplay, I'll step out. I'll step back. I'd step back. I couldn't do it. I just couldn't do it. "

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" We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection. "

" I couldn't adjust to the racism in Florida. It was so blatant... I had never been so described as Florida described me. "

" I was born two months early, and everyone had given up on me. But my mother insisted on my life. "

" If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't. "

" I sometimes like the pictures photographers take of me. "

" I never had an occasion to question color, therefore, I only saw myself as what I was... a human being. "

" History passes the final judgment. "

" Generally, I tend to despise human behavior rather than human creatures. "

" I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions. "

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" The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten that message - finally. "

" Far as I can tell, I still have most of my hair, my gut is not hanging over my belt, and I still have all of my teeth. "

" Since I couldn't actuate the things that I wanted to do, the only weapon I had was to say no. "

" I learned to hear silence. That's the kind of life I lived: simple. I learned to see things in people around me, in my mom, dad, brothers and sisters. "

" But I always had the ability to say no. That's how I called my own shots. "

" A good deed here, a good deed there, a good thought here, a good comment there, all added up to my career in one way or another. "

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