Randa Haines Quotes
Because I had a lot of emotional upheaval in my life, I'm attracted to stories about characters whose lives are full of wounds and secrets. I'm not interested in who's going to ask me to the prom. I never went to a prom.
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Everything I do, I go to black people. If I have a problem at the airport, I'll go to the black ticket agent. I hope they notice me because I'll get better service. If I'm at a restaurant, I look for the black waiter. Rent-a-Car, give you the upgrade.
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Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.
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I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.
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I believe in the promise of America. Being a Cuban refugee, having come here when I was eight, I know that this is a shining city on the hill.
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Being in the stands is very difficult. I was never playing but I am nervous watching, waiting.
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I definitely want to work on a project with young designers, not just French but international.
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A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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We are born believing. A man bears beliefs as a tree bears apples.
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I was always kind of florid. And full of rhetoric. That was my flaw. My whole time writing, I've had to work against that because it can be a wrecking posture.
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Way back when I was a junior pastry chef, I'd bake loads of muffins every morning, as many as 120 or so, while operating on autopilot.
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Developing a relationship with someone you admire, who can encourage you to reach your full potential, is something that everyone can benefit from.
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The sensation of dying is sweet, sensuous, placid.
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He was white and shaken, like a dry martini.
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I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
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I was 12 when it really hit me. I did children's theatre camp during the summers and played a fairy in 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' The next summer, I played Clytemnestra in 'Agamemnon' and I was like, 'OK, this is amazing.'
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'I'm excited by the band White Stripes. It really excites me. But it wouldn't excite me if there weren't those limitations, if we weren't living in that box, if we weren't trapped. Once that goes away, then I'll know that it's not worth doing it any more.'
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A lot of sport is being comfortable with being uncomfortable.
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It's very satisfying to promote science and education and see good results. Setting a good example for young people, being a role model, is very important for me.
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Music is my life, it is a reflection of what I go through.
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Making words rhyme for a living is one of the great joys of my life... That's a superpower I've been very conscious of developing. I started at the same level as everybody else, and then I just listened to more music and talked to myself until it was an actual superpower I could pull out on special occasions.
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Because I had a lot of emotional upheaval in my life, I'm attracted to stories about characters whose lives are full of wounds and secrets. I'm not interested in who's going to ask me to the prom. I never went to a prom.
