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I was raised in a sort of village. I have a huge family, and I think there is strength in that. It helped me to deal with some of the complications of living in the South because I always felt like I belonged, no matter what.

Chadwick Boseman

We came. We saw. We conquered.
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One Liner Team Work Togetherness
You’re not free unless you can show the good and the bad, all sides of them. So to me, when I play a character, it’s important that I can show every aspect of them.
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Aspect Bad Character Freedom Goodness Important
You have to cherish things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under pressure.
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Cherish Clock Inspirational Memories Pressure
Baseball players need strength but also the ability to make fast-paced, explosive movements, so their training is all about strengthening the tendons around the bone and the joint so you don’t tear the muscles from the bones.
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Ability Baseball Bone Explosive Movement Muscle Player Strength Stress Training
They should probably have a James Brown aerobic tape. You would lose a lot of weight.
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Probable Weigh Loss
When you are deciding on next steps, next jobs, next careers, further education, you should rather find purpose than a job or a career,” he said at the time. “Purpose crosses disciplines. Purpose is an essential element of you. It is the reason you are on the planet at this particular time in history.
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Career Decision Discipline Finding History Inspirational Job Planet Purpose
I’m not afraid to work.
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Afraid Inspirational Work
You have to appreciate things in a different way when you know the clock is ticking, you are under tension
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Appreciation Clock Different Tension
The best advice about getting older? Just be thankful you’re not dead!
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Advice Birthday Dead Old
I think the most stressful time of my life was when I was in New York, and I didn’t have money to pay my rent.
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Country Hard Time Life Money Pay Rent Stress Struggle Time
There’s nothing more painful than your abdomen growling.
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Growth Pain
In dark hours, true leaders rise.
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Darkness Inspirational Leadership One Liner Rise
I got scars from every film I’ve done, every TV show.
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Film Scars Television
I would love to have an ocean of love right now. That said, the number-one rule of acting is, ‘Do not seek approval from the audience.’ People don’t realize that. You can’t do stuff to get applause. You have to live in the truth.
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Acting Applause Approve Audience Love Number Ocean People Realize Rule Truth
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience tells him it is right.
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Politics Position Right Safe Time
When you play characters, you shouldn’t just be putting on their characteristics – you should be finding it inside yourself.
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Character Characteristics Finding Movie Play Yourself
For all the claims that we now live in a society free of racism, the tragedies that presently overwhelm us are a stiff dose of reality.
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Claim Racism Reality Society Tragedy
I might have had too many friends in my twenties.
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Friendship Past
I think you realize how much you need to have people that you love. It’s not as much about them loving you – it’s about you needing to love people.
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Love Need People Realize
I often write scripts to instrumentals like a hip-hop artist. Music inspires me to write.
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Artist Instrument Music Script Writing
I can’t even imagine something being more fun than playing James Brown onstage.
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Fun Imagination Movie Play
Guys are natural problem solvers – they like to have strategies.
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Guy Natural Problem Solution Strategy
I was raised in a sort of village. I have a huge family, and I think there is strength in that. It helped me to deal with some of the complications of living in the South because I always felt like I belonged, no matter what.
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Complication Family Life Strength Village
In television you don’t have a lot of time to spend with the role or the script. Typically you get a script a week prior to shooting. Sometimes it’s even less time, not enough time to dream about the role.
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If we don’t learn from the mistakes of the past, we are doomed to repeat them in the future.
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Future Inspirational Mistake Past Repeat
Some states spend more $$ on prisons than on colleges. We have to make a change.
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Change College Country Prison State Vote
I’d taken, like, maybe some African dance classes a couple of times, but I wasn’t a musical theater person at all.
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Class Couple Dance Music Person

I was raised in a sort of village. I have a huge family, and I think there is strength in that. It helped me to deal with some of the complications of living in the South because I always felt like I belonged, no matter what.

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