Chirlane McCray Quotes
Some people are just quiet - they don't need to be talking all the time and aren't extroverted, but they're not necessarily afraid to talk. I'm not really a shy person.
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Broadway is really my life.
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I don't carry a wallet. I keep my cards in my pocket and cash in my boots.
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I am a very reclusive, private person.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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Compared to how I have raced before and how I have competed, the success that I have had, this does look like doom compared to it.
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We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
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You can't create a monster, then whine when it stomps on a few buildings.
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Luckily, I was raised by people who'd already seen all the yuck stuff, which is why they originally didn't want me to act. I understood the difference between getting a part at a Hollywood party and getting a job.
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The crown of literature is poetry.
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Members of great teams confront each other when they see something that isn't serving the team.
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I certainly was one of the instigators in the 1960s of freedom of expression.
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The grandeur of Jerusalem is also... its problem.
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As long as I love Beauty I am young.
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I'm obsessive. That's the word for me. I obsess – perhaps to the point where it's moderately dysfunctional. I tend to put a book through about 100 revisions. If anything, that's an understatement. If there's another author out there who does this sort of revision, I would really like to meet him. Maybe we could form some sort of support group.
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I've approached every character I've ever played with a poem, first and foremost.
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
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I tend to not watch things that are current. And then if everybody swears it's amazing then I'll like watch the whole series in a weekend.
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Sometimes I still go round the house making weird noises and stuff, so in that aspect, I haven't grown up!
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Believe me when I say this: you can't please everyone in concert, even though I still want to. Someone always wants you to sing a song that isn't necessarily on your set list.
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I just can't do heels any more. At least not when I'm working. I travel a lot.
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At Harvard, where students tend to respond to real-world celebrities with the vague sense that they could do a better job themselves, the recipe for celebrity is complex.
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Some people are just quiet - they don't need to be talking all the time and aren't extroverted, but they're not necessarily afraid to talk. I'm not really a shy person.
