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My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate,

My mother had to send me to the movies with my birth certificate, so that I wouldnt have to pay the extra fifty cents that the adults had to pay. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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I would suggest that teachers show their students concrete examples of the negative effects of the actions that gangsta rappers glorify. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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In a typical history book, black Americans are mentioned in the context of slavery or civil rights. Theres so much more to the story. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go… Dont ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body. – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just wanted men in tights. – Frank Miller

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movies

The reason I started writing movies was because I kept getting parts that I just kind of stepped into. I didnt have to do a lot of work and I ended up getting sort of bored. – Scott Caan

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Ive done movies with a sword before. But I havent really been given the full responsibility of something like a Ridley Scott film. – Orlando Bloom

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movies

There are a lot of movies Ive done that come and go, and dont really establish a growing fan base. – Seann William Scott

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