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I wrote my first script, which was 50 pages, at age 15. It was about two brothers in love with the same nurse while they're convalescing in a Civil War hospital. ”
To begin with, I've always known that I was a little bit different. And, I have a lot of relatives who own farms. I grew up in the American South where political issues and issues of justice were at the forefront. What I do now is a combination of all these factors. ”
In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent. ”
If the Negroes are to remain forever removed from the producing atmosphere, and the present discrimination continues, there will be nothing left for them to do. ”
There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book. ”
It's our nature: Human beings like success but they hate successful people. ”
Jessica Jones isn't dressed in a sexy outfit to turn people on. She's gritty. She's a human being. ”
When you play a doctor, you have to look like you can do it but you don't actually go and do it. It's not like you learn how to cut open somebody and go do surgery. You have to think of a human being and not play the idea of what that would look like. ”
I have been called the human jukebox, yes. But karaoke is not meant for people who can sing! ”
I have been a civil servant and a politician for over 30 years. ”