Dana Walden Quotes
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I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me.
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'Fairness' can be an important quality for legislators to consider when they are passing public policies. But it is a subjective standard. And it has no place among judges on a court - whose duty is to dispassionately judge a law's constitutionality.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!
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It's nice to get to know people who are the same age as you that do the same things because it's like a different level of understanding.
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It could be partly my taste. It's just my belief that there are female characters that will benefit from not being vulnerable.
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People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
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When I was going through my chemotherapy, I realized not many people are willing to talk about cancer, even after getting fully cured. Celebrities and educated people are also very protective and private about it. I still haven't understood why. I decided to fight my battle out in the public.
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I was born in Bangkok in 1968 and grew up in Southeast Asia with my Thai mom and my American father, who first came to the region to fight in Vietnam and stayed to work assisting refugees.
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When I moved to Atlanta, I felt like an outsider - away from my friends and family except for the LGBTQ community.
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There are two books that impressed me when I was very young. One was 'The Adventures of Augie March' - the idea of having something so generous, and so adventurous and improvisatory. The other was 'The U.S.A. Trilogy,' by John Dos Passos.
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I've always wanted to play 'Lady Macbeth' and Strindberg's 'Miss Julie'.
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On that show, I did country and some rock, too, whatever record I had out at the time, I'd sing that.
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Zombies are soulless creatures, and being soulless has been empirically proven to result in an unpleasant disposition.
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There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
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Art is something that opens up and enhances your emotions and that's what I like to think I'm doing.
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I believe that we are all, openly or secretly, struggling against one or another kind of nihilism.
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If you see me in New York, you'll probably see me on my bicycle riding furiously between a city bus and a taxi cab, hitting one of them on the side and yelling at them.
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Yet, I wondered why Marshall did not at least attempt a kiss. In many ways, his treatment of me reminded me of the way I had behaved toward the doll that Mamma Mae had given me as a child. I favored it so that I had refused myself of the joy of playing with it, daring to love it only with my eyes. But in doing so, I had denied myself its very purpose.
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That's what everybody remembers. They don't remember how many medals I won in my career. They remember the 10s.
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I find that when I'm struggling to think of how a six-year-old would feel about something, I just have to go right down to the common denominator, find the simplest way that you can look at an object or a problem, and not muck it up with all of the stuff that adults do and over-analyze.
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My mom is a Pan-Africanist. My dad is still Orthodox Sunni Muslim, but he's super fun. He worked in television for years. He was a Black Panther.
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'Prison Break' on Netflix has generated a whole new generation of viewers.
