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- Nov 07, 2020
Name Quotes
A name carries more history than it seems.
These quotes explore names from a few sides - living with a name that carries an unusual meaning, the messy improvised way band names actually get chosen, and the pride of having your name tied to a brand you believe in. See I Am Quotes for related themes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Queen
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- Nov 07, 2020
I mean, come on, Beyonce's the queen of pop music. She's the queen. If you could run for queen... I would put her name in the suggestion box. She's incredible.
- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Jean Toomer is a phantom of the Harlem Renaissance. Pick up any general study of the literature written by Afro-Americans, and there is the name of Jean Toomer. In biographies and memoirs of Harlem Renaissance figures, his name is invoked as if he had been one of the sights along Lenox Avenue.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The name James Baldwin had been around the house for as long as I could remember and meant almost as much as that of Martin Luther King.
- Nov 07, 2020
Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I don't like books which are full of name dropping.
- Person
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I moved to Los Angeles, I was straight out of grad school, and I didn't have a single credit to my name. I knew one person in town - another actor whose name is John Billingsley. I just had to audition and audition and audition. I was plugging away for 15 years. So I earned my stripes!
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I usually hold a puppet and play with different voices until something happens and the right voice just hits me. Then, I'll pick a name that just seems to fit the character that naturally comes out.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's weird to think I'm in a show in Vegas with my name in lights. It's crazy, like a dream.
- Farmer
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- Nov 07, 2020
My last name's kind of interesting - Farmer. I don't really think it's interesting for the stage. I think Lynne kind of had a better ring to it.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often say television is not a job for grown men. You go to a set, they pick out your clothes for you, they tell you where to stand, what to say, and your chair has your name on it in case you can't find a place to sit.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
No actor has a flawless career, but in the long term, I'd like my name to be synonymous with good quality.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
You cannot act a color. Do not tell me I'm acting black, because I'm not. I'm acting whatever you want to call it - urban. I don't even have a name for it. I just call it 'me.'
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you write a high-tech thriller, and then people in the defense establishment start calling you - people I can't name - you feel you've hit a nerve.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020