Chirlane McCray Quotes
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.
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Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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I pretty much make time for that weekly manicure.
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People in the film industry always want to save for a rainy day. Many early actors died in small houses with no money, and so they are insecure. My advantage is I don't value money that much. It's an easy thing for me to let go.
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People who really try to be conscious of what they have done, who take responsibility, to me these kinds of people are heroes.
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I found my voice singing pop and ballads, almost all of them Colombian artists. When I was 16, my family gave me a recording session with some Colombian producers, and that's where I started my career.
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I have to be honest - I don't love guns.
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I've had a fast track to who I want to be. I know all of my friends are struggling to what to pick in college, and I've been given a fast pass to kick start my future.
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Great dad. Yeah, he would ask me for money on birthdays and, you know, inappropriate times. And I just wrote him off like, 'You're not a father.' I just learned you cannot emotionally invest in people who are not attainable.
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Our job is only to hold up the mirror - to tell and show the public what has happened.
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People love watching medical dramas - they also love watching documentaries about the workings of the brain.
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I kind of like not knowing how to do something - it's more exciting.
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Heart disease is no laughing matter. After my father suffered a massive heart attack, I realized just how serious heart disease can be.
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Black women do not have as many positive images in the media as we should.
