John Amos

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I could have begged. They made it obvious to me that if I wanted to come back and be a good boy... but I'd rather be in Roots than Good Times.
- John Amos
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They killed my character off and as God would have it, just when they told me I would never work again, I got cast in a little program called Roots, and as they would say, the rest is history.
- John Amos
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I've never seen oil slicks covering such a large area in the Gulf of Mexico.
- John Amos
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It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this stereotype.
- John Amos
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To teach means scarcely anything more than to show how things differ from one another in their different purposes, forms, and origins. ... Therefore, he who differentiates well teaches well.
- John Amos
Collection: Mean
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Despite the fact that I had a writing background, they didn't want to accept whatever ideas I had as a writer.
- John Amos
Collection: Writing