Keenen Ivory Wayans Quotes
I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.
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President Bush has a track record of making the right decisions when it comes to national security.
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Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.
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The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.
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Madonna is a creation, so perhaps we should give her and the factory that created her a little credit, but I think that she should quietly disappear now. Poor Madge seems unable to decide whether she wants to look like Marilyn Monroe or Marlene Dietrich.
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The Bill of Rights isn't some legalistic fine print. It was written to make our lives freer, more prosperous, and happier. By forsaking it, America has become no better than any other country in the world.
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I have been waiting for someone to come along and tap into that very real frustration that exists in a very large segment of the working-class Republican base. And no one had done it until Donald Trump. I very clearly saw a void, and I knew somebody would fill it. And the moment I knew he had filled it, I knew he would win the nomination.
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My husband and I grew up with parents who supported our passion, and we're grateful to them for that. It really helps you find your identity when you're younger. It helps you become a really well-rounded person, the more you can show from different perspectives. The arts show us empathy, which is so important.
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We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.
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I do try to speak of positive things. I still try to, like, present two sides of the story, and I do try to relate to life in a 360 degree and not be one-dimensional. But by all means, manage expectations.
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If a writer is always trying to keep a narrator emitting a tone of complete knowingness, it can become false.
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I believe that we can heal Rwanda - and our world - by healing one heart at a time.
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I have generally sought to work on questions that I thought were both interesting and approachable, yet not too widely appreciated. To struggle to make discoveries that would be made by others a short time later seems futile to me.
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You have to learn the crowd. I just pay attention to them so I can make sure I can make them laugh.
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I believe in my writing.
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A person who knows but a little will put on an air of knowledge. This is a matter of inexperience. When someone knows something well, it will not be seen in his manner.
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Self-government means continuous effort to be independent of government control, whether it is foreign government or whether it is national. Swaraj government will be a sorry affair if people look up for the regulation of every detail of life.
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Basketball is my passion, I love it. But my family and friends mean everything to me. That's what's important. I need my phone so I can keep in contact with them at all times.
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Bent Literary Agency had a Q&A on Twitter, and I took a chance and asked if the Black Lives Matter movement was an appropriate topic for a YA novel. Brooks Sherman, who is now my agent, responded that he didn't think any topics were inappropriate for YA. I remember being so terrified even just sending the tweet.
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If the human heart sometimes finds moments of pause as it ascends the slopes of affection, it rarely halts on the way down.
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When you give a man a dole, you deny him his dignity, and when you deny him his dignity you rob him of his destiny.
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I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.
