David Elkind Quotes
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Having Black hair is unique in that Black women change up styles a lot. You can walk down one street block in New York City and see 10 different hairstyles that Black women are wearing: straight curls, short cuts, braids - we really run the gamut.
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
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I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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I shop at a lot of vintage stores because the prices are amazing, and I love the idea that there's a history behind the piece I'm wearing.
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Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
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I am happy that I have entertained people and made them happy.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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Smell is a very animal thing, almost reptilian, where the more cerebral things like reading less so.
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I was four when I first stood at the helm on my own.
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I am a collaborator with everyone who agrees that I need to be in control. I happily collaborate with my loyalists.
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I don't understand labels. I don't need anybody to tell me I'm Latina or black or anything else. I've played characters that were written for Caucasian females, I just want to be given the same consideration as everybody else, and so far that has been happening.
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Change is not only likely, it's inevitable.
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The South is brutalized to a degree not realized by its own inhabitants, and the very foundation of government, law and order, are imperilled.
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Prior to 2001, hardly any company in North America or Europe would buy from India.
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
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People who devote themselves to a life of style are admirable.
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Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered, and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
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If you believe that the greatest challenge you've got is credibility, then the way you get that is you earn it, right? That's not something that any set of policy makers can bestow.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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It's a sad day when the leaders of the free world engage in such deception and trickery. I voted against this unnecessary war and will continue to argue that the best way to support our troops is to bring them home.
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The first time around as a mom, I held on really tight and I was so stressed.
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We see these adolescents mourning for a lost childhood.
