You're something, alright." I laughed into his bare chest, my eyes closing. "I'm your something..." His voice trailed off into a wisper as I drifted off.


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We all have our prejudices, and we may or may not be aware of them. Sometimes people walk by me and ...
STERLING K. BROWN
You can't really fake chemistry: either you have it or you don't, and you can't have a r...
STERLING K. BROWN
I catch myself every once in a while doing that weird thing that I see famous people do, where they ...
STERLING K. BROWN
I think, for the first time, people are starting to say, 'That's Sterling K. Brown,' whi...
STERLING K. BROWN
With any character you portray, you can never play the end in the beginning. You have to pursue and ...
STERLING K. BROWN
I didn't grow up feeling very handsome.
STERLING K. BROWN
I have tremendous respect for Christopher Darden, and I recognize him as an individual of integrity,...
STERLING K. BROWN
We're all trying to figure out what's next, what's best for our families, what's bes...
STERLING K. BROWN
I see my friends and family who have a passion or a dream, but it's now a dream deferred because...
STERLING K. BROWN
Johnnie Cochran was such a heroic figure for getting the acquittal of O.J. Simpson, and the acquitta...
STERLING K. BROWN
Always have an attitude of gratitude.
STERLING K. BROWN
It's the people who don't recognize the racism within themselves that can be the most damagi...
STERLING K. BROWN
Empathy begins with understanding life from another person's perspective. Nobody has an objectiv...
STERLING K. BROWN
My family did a lot of road trips across these continental United States when I was a kid. Twenty or...
STERLING K. BROWN
Whether the theater is 1,000 seats or 500 seats or 200 seats, you have to make sure the person in th...
STERLING K. BROWN
I was at Stanford University up in the West Coast Bay Area, so the biggest song of my freshman year ...
STERLING K. BROWN
Each generation takes the earth as trustees. We ought to bequeath to posterity as many forests and o...
JULIUS STERLING MORTON
I've spent so much of my career working intermittently, being busy and then with large swaths of...
STERLING K. BROWN
I want to be remembered for a body of work so that when the next guy comes up, he could think of Ste...
STERLING K. BROWN
The cultivation of trees is the cultivation of the good, the beautiful, and the ennobling in man, an...
JULIUS STERLING MORTON
It's always the case that the minority has to navigate two different worlds. Women have to know ...
STERLING K. BROWN
Of all the tyrants the world affords, Our own affections are the fiercest lords.
EARL OF STERLING
Busy is good, you know. Busy is better than bored, and there's more recognition. Like, I try to ...
STERLING K. BROWN
I go to Stanford, and I'm an economics major, not thinking I'm going to do anything with act...
STERLING K. BROWN
I remember the great work that Norman Lear did. That was an incredible heyday to be a black actor.
STERLING K. BROWN
Sarah Paulson doesn't lie. Like, in life. But she doesn't lie onscreen, and you can't ta...
STERLING K. BROWN
Arbor Day is not like other holidays. Each of those reposes on the past, while Arbor Day proposes fo...
JULIUS STERLING MORTON
When I walked up on stage at the Emmys, and when people stood up, it was a really sort of emotional,...
STERLING K. BROWN
Life has to be everything. It can't be all sad. It can't be all peaches and cream. Because t...
STERLING K. BROWN
I always thought that I would just be working in obscurity in perpetuity.
STERLING K. BROWN
Different roles call for different aspects or different faces of Sterling to emerge.
STERLING K. BROWN
I'm a spiritual person. I do believe in a higher power. I believe God placed me on this planet t...
STERLING K. BROWN
My mom taught me from a young age to give back and volunteer any chance you get. It was something th...
J. J. WATT
No doubt about it. For every player. Thursday nights are very tough for us because it is a short tur...
J. J. WATT
When I picture myself after football, it's down home, coaching high school football, just a rela...
J. J. WATT
I know that I'm going out there, and I know that I am going to get hit in the head. I know that&...
J. J. WATT
Since my sophomore year in high school, I knew I didn't want to do anything but be a professiona...
J. J. WATT
If you're an outsider looking into my life, you're thinking, 'That dude is crazy. He'...
J. J. WATT
Houston is kind of a melting pot. There are many different cultures and ethnicities represented out ...
J. J. WATT
I get a lot of letters that say, 'I'm a normal, down-to-earth girl. I love to cook, and I lo...
J. J. WATT
My dad's a firefighter, so I know what it's like for policemen and firefighters to be on the...
J. J. WATT
If you're going to nap, make sure you have a proper chunk of time blocked out. I'm not one o...
J. J. WATT
I will always do what I can to help others, but when I retire, I want to be a dad and a husband. I w...
J. J. WATT
When it comes down to that moment, when it's me against you, you know in your head whether you w...
J. J. WATT
You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give ev...
J. J. WATT
I ate a whole 20-inch pizza by myself one time.
J. J. WATT
A reputation takes years and years and years to build, and it takes one press of a button to ruin it...
J. J. WATT
I'll fight a bear, but I don't like spiders. I'm not a fan of those.
J. J. WATT
I never want to let a day go by without having done something to get a little better.
J. J. WATT
There's no greater feeling in the world than when you can put a smile on somebody's face jus...
J. J. WATT
I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
J. J. WATT
People always ask, 'Man, why don't you come out and enjoy it? Why don't you celebrate? W...
J. J. WATT
A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ...
J. J. WATT
If you don't have that vision for the end goal, you have no clue where you're going, and you...
J. J. WATT