Cheryl Anne Norton (Cherrelle) Quotes
To be honest with you, I don't male-bash. I don't believe in male-bashing. I write about things that are natural, that happen in life.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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I love being a mum, but it's much more intensive work than being an actress - going to work feels like you've got a day off. Not that I want a day off from being a mum; it's just perhaps I had this impression before that mums don't work. But they work more than anyone.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I'm the little dog who goes the wrong way - under the hoop.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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The good poet sticks to his real loves, those within the realm of possibility. He never tries to hold hands with God or the human race.
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Man's enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself.
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You don't actually have control of the position people want you to be in. If they say, 'You king of the blacks,' you're king of the blacks - whether you like it or not.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
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I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
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I hope to do big action movies and strong dramas, and to produce films. I also want to get kids more involved in what's going on in the world and to be politically active.
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We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.
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If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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Only work which is the product of inner compulsion can have spiritual meaning.
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The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.
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Like species, couples die out or evolve.
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Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self- sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.
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Life equals running and when we stop running maybe that's how we'll know life is finally finished.
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Only if we understand can we care. Only if we care will we help. Only if we help shall they be saved.
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People often ask me why I choose to primarily play queer characters, and my answer is that as a queer man, I choose to align myself with projects in which I can be of service for a purpose greater than myself: to be for an audience of queer people of color, something I didn't have the privilege of seeing as a young man.
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To be honest with you, I don't male-bash. I don't believe in male-bashing. I write about things that are natural, that happen in life.
