I guess I had what you could call an unconventional upbringing.
I love thinking about American history, thinking about LA history. I love brooding on crime.
I want the white people to understand my people.
When you want to write well, wake up at 5 A.M.
I just try to do the best job I can with what I'm given. My main focus is the work and not the glamour.
If people walk in and they don't know the door, no one says a word.
I think I come back to Essex and fit in pretty well but until you get there you don't know.
The American dream has always been about chasing opportunity and pursuing a brighter future for ourselves and our children.
Dawn is the friend of the muses.
But if I played well and prepared myself properly, then all I had to do was control myself and put myself in a position to win.
Things that made me happy five, six years ago don't make me happy anymore.
We need a pedagogy free from fear and focused on the magic of children's innate quest for information and understanding.
I had done some flimflam movies, but I didn't understand what being an actor meant anymore.
Ask yourself if that is what Jesus is all about - that is, getting us to love one another - then why did everyone reject him?
The big hurdle is going out and raising the revenue. There's no doubt about that; it's an uphill battle.
Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.
A fool's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat.
When the sky falls we'll all catch larks.
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
He that is warm thinks all so.
If you would shoot a general, shoot his horse first.
Silence was never written down.
With money, a dragon - without it, a worm.
Silence is the voice of complicity.
Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old yours will be new.
If the mountain won't come to mohammed, mohammed must go to the mountain.
Before telling secrets on the road, look in the bushes.
The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself.
