Famous Jamaal Charles Quotes & Sayings

I started off as an actor thinking that I would be this Romeo, this dashing leading man. It turns out that I'm a character actor. — Alessandro Nivola

The night Junior stayed, my right to myself was taken from me in a way that had felt more final than ever before. Then the school had denied my rape - my word. The subsequent silencing and exile - misplaced shame - were the catalysts for me to finally break free of my mother's grasp and my voicelessness and do what I truly wanted, alone. I wished to prove myself as independent and valid and strong - to my mother, and to the world. I'd believed I had needed something huge and external that no one could deny was impressive, so I could show my family I was able - so they could finally know that I was strong.

Instead I had shown myself.

And it felt wonderful. — Aspen Matis

You know how kids dream of being soccer players or actors? Well, my dream was to be a sushi chef. — Nobu Matsuhisa

Obama ran as sane and decent, as though we were electing a mood, and not necessarily a set of policies. Unfortunately, Obama has governed the same way - and misread the mood, which is all there is, really, because being crazy and stupid is all we're really good at politically any more. — Charlie Pierce

You can put law on paper but that don't make it right. — August Wilson

We must accept all of God's will for us, not just those portions that happen to appeal and bring instant gratification and pleasure to us. — Rod Parsley

Writers do not write what they know. They write what they can imagine. — Walter Dean Myers

I also paint and enjoy acrylic medium; some of my close friends have paintings I did for them. — Kiana Tom

Drought brings out the worst in us and it's easy to hate your fellow human beings. — Luke Davies

This is the crisis we're in: God-light streamed into the world, but men and women everywhere ran for the darkness. They went for the darkness because they were not really interested in pleasing God. Everyone who makes a practice of doing evil, addicted to denial and illusion, hates God-light and won't come near it, fearing a painful exposure. But anyone working and living in truth and reality welcomes God-light so the work can be seen for the God-work it is. — Eugene H. Peterson

It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality. — Og Mandino

We do not merely absorb experience; we filter and select it. — Jerome L. Singer

I've been able to do a lot of things in the movies. I've been able to run with the buffalo, you know. I've been able to pitch a perfect game in Yankee Stadium. I've been in the bathtub with Susan Sarandon. I've had a lot of chances to do a lot of things. I enjoy sports, but I enjoy sports so much to the point that I wouldn't do the movie unless I thought it had a chance to be good. — Kevin Costner