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My father's family came from Virginia and Philadelphia. He wasn't a brother who talked a lot. He was a workingman, a quiet, blue-collar dude.

Collar Brother Came Dude
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Because I was big, I didn't have to listen to anyone doubting me. I was just considered good at football or whatever, there were no questions about it.

About Anyone Because Big
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My mother passed when I was in the third grade, my father when I was in the seventh, and that's when I was shipped to Los Angeles to live with an aunt.

Angeles Aunt Father Grade
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Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.

Change Doing Just Life
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If I was gonna go to jail, I don't want to go to jail for stealing a bottle of water. I'll steal that $20 million. At least then it was worth it.

Bottle Go Gonna Jail
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In 'Pacific Rim' I had to have a haircut I wouldn't usually rock. However, the moustache I had in the film - that might have to come out again. It was a good moustache. Good times.

Again Come Film Good
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It's actually quite criminal how 'The Wire' was systematically ignored.

Actually Criminal How Ignored
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I wasn't bad at school, but I was never a bookworm.
Bad Never School Bookworm
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I'd rather a young black actor read about success as opposed to how tough it was. I get these roles because I can act and that's it. Hopefully that's it.

About Act Actor Because
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What is now proved was once only imagined.

Imagined Proved Once Now
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I love bikes. I used to own one, but I fell off it when I was younger and that was the end of my bike riding days until now.

Bike Bikes Days End
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I was into Spider Man when I was a kid and that was the only comic I've ever read.

Comic Ever Kid Man
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Every harlot was a virgin once.

Harlot Virgin Once
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All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.

Ask Back Except Get
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As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

Been Born Easy Felt
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
Always Baseball Best Game
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If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

Baseball Cemetery Either
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I learned early to drink beer, wine and whiskey. And I think I was about 5 when I first chewed tobacco.
About Beer Chewed Drink
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Without movie parts I was reduced to freak status. I just couldn't stand it.

Freak Just Movie Parts
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There was no male vampire type in existence. Someone suggested an actor of the Continental School who could play any type, and mentioned me.

Actor Any Continental Could
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The vampire was a complete change from the usual romantic characters I was playing, but it was a success.
Change Characters Complete Playing
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Never compare your beginning to someone else’s ending. You will get discouraged. Your stories were not written side by side, neither was there a track and field event when you all were born.

Never Compare Beginning Someone else Side by side
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My close-up was magnificent!
Close-Up Magnificent
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Martyrdom was the price of enthusiasm for acting.

Acting Enthusiasm Martyrdom Price
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It was hell to go through what I went through. I didn't know I had so many friends. Many people gave a damn about my situation. They helped cure me.

About Cure Damn Friends
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Arafat was a barrier to peace.

Arafat Was Barrier Peace
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I grew up in a household where we all celebrated who we were. There was no space to make people feel different or 'less than.'
Grew Household Celebrated People
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When I was coming to this country, I heard about its promises.

Coming Country Promises
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The 2014 election was not a repudiation of government in general.

The Election Was Not
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I was always brought up to have a cup of tea at halfway up a rock face.

Always Brought Cup Face
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I had many opportunities to get behind products in the past, and I was always careful to evaluate all of them. I will not put my name to shoddy items.

Always Behind Careful Evaluate
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Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it.

Sport Nature Science Art
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.

Boy Child Defend Father
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Although I'm an atheist who believes only in great nature, I recognize the spiritual richness and grandeur of the Roman Catholicism in which I was raised.

Raised Great Nature Roman
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It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and that's a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing?

Because Came Come Deeply
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I've always had ambition, and the acting was successful and put my name on the map, but it was never the plan to stop there.

Acting Always Ambition Had
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I have real good parents. They poor. They have regular, poor jobs and what not. They real good people and what not; I was just raised in a bad society.

Bad Parents Good Jobs
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I came home every Friday afternoon, riding the six miles on the back of a big mule. I spent Saturday and Sunday washing and ironing and cooking for the children and went back to my country school on Sunday afternoon.

Afternoon Back Big Came
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I was cast in 'Thor' and I'm cast as a Nordic god. If you know anything about the Nords, they don't look like me but there you go. I think that's a sign of the times for the future. I think we will see multi-level casting. I think we will see that, and I think that's good.

About Anything Cast Casting
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A lot of people heard 'Murda Business' and thought it was about killing people, trying to be tough and hardcore. If you actually listen to the lyrics, it's kind of silly and playful.

About Actually Business Hardcore
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My mom was a saint. She taught me to be terminally nice.

Me Mom Nice Saint
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I was a kid watching music videos, which were so cool and made me want to learn how to dance. I wish I could've gone to dance classes and learn, like, hip-hop dancing.

Classes Cool Dance Dance Classes
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I was who I was in high school in accordance with the rules of conduct for a normal person, like obeying your mom and dad. Then I got out of high school and moved out of the house, and I just started, for lack of a better term, running free.

Accordance Better Conduct Dad
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At university, I had been obsessed with reading about the lives of Rimbaud and Baudelaire, and I was steeped in the crazy poets, and I came to view my early subjects through that prism.

About Been Came Crazy
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Living in England was wonderfully civil and easy-going.
Civil England Living Wonderfully
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I started rapping since, like, 14. But I've been obsessed with rap from when I was 11. I heard 'Baby Don't Cry,' I'll never forget.

Baby Been Cry Forget
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I hated school so bad. I only liked art class during high school. I was always smart.

Always Art Bad Class
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I was a pretty nice kid. Kind of quiet, but quiet in terms I wasn't going out and setting fire to anything. I had a big mouth and I was creative type, you know.

Anything Big Big Mouth Creative
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You'd think that radio was around long enough that someone would have coined a word for staring into space.

Around Enough Long Radio
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“It’s no use going back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”
Goin Back Yesterday Different
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