Cheryl Anne Norton (Cherrelle) Quotes
I might not be in a relationship anymore, but I don't believe that people should have to lie to themselves just to make somebody else feel good.
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There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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I don't write under the ghost of Faulkner. I live in the same town and find his life and work inspiring, but that's it. I have a motorcycle and tool along the country lanes. I travel at my own speed.
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It's hard to pick out one particular wrestler.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I want every version of a woman and a man to be possible. I want women and men to be able to be full-time parents or full-time working people or any combination of the two.
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I mean Afghanistan is a very rugged, complicated country.
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Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
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If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a lot, at least in a basic way, about how the real world works.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I do not believe in abortion at will. I do not believe that if a woman just wants to have an abortion she should... I do believe if you have an abortion you are committing murder.
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I am at war... with the principal personage of traditional philosophy, that abstract subject who masquerades as everyone and anyone, but is really a male subject in disguise.
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You have to train people how to be business innovators. If you don't train them, the quality of the ideas that you get in an innovation marketplace is not likely to be high.
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You realize when you're pregnant how lucky you are to have access to medical care.
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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
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Work faithfully, and you will put yourself in possession of a glorious and enlarging happiness.
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The kids are not brought up to have minds of their own as individuals.
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As elsewhere in his writing, Vidal gives the impression of believing that the entire heterosexual edifice - registry offices, Romeo and Juliet, the disposable diaper - is just a sorry story of self-hypnosis and mass hysteria: a hoax, a racket, or sheer propaganda.
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Everyone who sits on a sofa watching 'Match of the Day' is a top soccer expert, as you know. So if you start to worry about such people reading your story and saying, 'That'd never happen' you're going to freeze up. You're writing fiction, and your characters can do whatever you need them to do.
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However, if you listen to me I think you can hear years of abuse in my voice - both bad abuse and good abuse.
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The band Grizzly Bear, I think they're excellent. There's a beauty and a musicality there that I wish would have been in vogue in the late '80s, when I was forming bands.
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I'm always thrilled when I get feedback from young people, particularly from 'The New Normal,' young gay people - when they say they want that when they grow up, that means a lot to me.
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I might not be in a relationship anymore, but I don't believe that people should have to lie to themselves just to make somebody else feel good.
