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" When I'm acting, that's all I'm doing. When I'm not acting, I'm not thinking about acting. If I'm writing, I'm just writing. "
Hill Harper
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Just
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" Being a celebrity doesn't have an iota of value when you're looking death in the eye. "
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" There will always be crazy things that happen in our lives, but love is the central connector. If we commit to love and partnership, the other stuff doesn't matter. "
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" The best way to protect young black, brown, men of color, women of color, is to actually stop profiling, stop the prejudice, and stop the judgment first. "
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" There are so many actors that I meet that don't act enough. Definitely take class, definitely train - that's the most important thing you do. Build your craft. Become better. "
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" I would suggest that folks who have a platform of so-called celebrity, to the extent that they don't use that platform, or if they just use it for their own self-aggrandizement, it is certainly fed in a way that it goes to waste. "
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" I'm really proud of the characters I've been able to play. Certainly, playing the character on 'CSI' as Dr. Sherman Hawkes is a wonderful stereotype-busting role. "
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" Intimacy can be about holding someone's hand. It could be about stroking their hair. "
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" Whatever your calling is as a service, follow it - that's beautiful. "
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" I've gotten a firsthand view at the destruction that black men and black women not being able to stay and build healthy relationships has had on the black family and black children. "
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" We all have choices we have to make, and with those choices come certain sacrifices. "
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" All work and no play make any forensic pathologist a dull boy. "
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" People are afraid of an unorganized, wasteful government. "
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People
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" The real important things are kindness and a sense of humor. I've been fortunate to have dated and could have easily married women who have those qualities, and time and circumstances didn't work out. Timing plays a big part. "
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" I believe that reality TV should be called 'not reality' TV; it's fiction. "
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" I love making films, but the best roles are hard to come by. "
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" Once you have a felony conviction on your record, one of the most difficult things to do is to break the cycle of recidivism. "
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" I've read a number of relationship books out there. A lot are written towards women. "
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" If you can't get excited about living life, then what are you doing? "
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" I believe we all have the capacity to be masters of many things, and there's nothing that we can't do. You can be a great actor and also be a great writer. There's so many things that all of us have the capacity to do. But somehow, life tries to convince us that we'd be lucky to do even one thing well, and I disagree. "
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" Here's the deal: I believe - and I attempt to live my life this way - we all have more time than we think we do. We all waste so much time. "
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Time
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" You never know what's going on in someone's life. You never know what's really going on behind what they present. "
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" Roles make the actor. "
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" Poverty existed before January 20, 2008, OK? Before President Obama took office. "
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" Let me tell you, if you're ever making a decision and the principle reason you'll do it is because of money, then it is absolutely the incorrect decision. "
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" When I get stopped by the police, I keep my hands on the wheel. I'm not going to move. "
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" People always want to think that because you're not from a certain circumstance, you can't relate. That's ridiculous. "
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" No matter how bad something gets, no matter where you come from, you can achieve anything. I really do believe that. "
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" Many of us are in are in our own prisons that aren't made of iron bars. "
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" Dr. King said, 'We are all tied together in a garment of mutual destiny.' Which says to me no matter how well I may be doing in Hollywood, if a young brother or sister in Louisiana, the South Bronx, the South Side of Chicago, South Central Los Angeles - is not doing well, then I'm not doing very well. "
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