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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The entrepreneurial bug had already bitten my son Ankur by the time he got to college. As a lifelong entrepreneur, I certainly didn't want to dampen his enthusiasm by telling him he couldn't do it, but I also wanted to make sure it was balanced with the proper attention to his studies.
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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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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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We say arts education is good for general education, but that's not the point. The arts are what great nations are remembered for. They are a mirror.
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If you find yourself always playing the villain, or if you find yourself being typecast into a corner where you're not happy then that's probably rather miserable, but if I have been typecast I am quite happy about it.
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If women are not perceived to be fully within the structures of power, surely it is power that we need to redefine rather than women?
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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.
