Bill Irwin Quotes
People ask me, 'Have you done much drag?' And I say, 'I don't think of it as drag. I'm playing a woman!'
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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The future is much like the present, only longer.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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Every year on your birthday, you get a chance to start new.
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Bitcoin is both disruptive from a technology perspective, but there's a tremendous power of social good behind it. So you can both build a cool business or have a great investment return, and there's the promise of potentially improving the remittance industry or banking the unbanked.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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I know exactly what it's like to stand on top of a tall building or in a high place and look down and go, 'Ohhhh my God.' I try to get into that place every time I write a scene like that. And definitely when I write the action scenes, I get overheated and my heart goes really fast. I get very involved.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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Don't try to dress like me or wear your hair like mine. Find your own style.
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The issue of prayer is not prayer; the issue of prayer is God.
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It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
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Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.
Olusegun Obasanjo -
Actors should never be important. Only directors should have power and place.
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From my side, there was no acceptance to this fact that I am any less than anyone around me. So there was a certain discomfort that I felt growing up that I am not seen as I want to be seen as.
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I understand blackness from the inside out. What my goal is, is to allow the world to see the humanity that I know personally to be the truth.
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I don't really look into the past too much.
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The fact that I get to live a life of passion where I'm doing only things that I love in this world and help people along the way. Life's good. I always remind myself of that.
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I'm an actress, not a pinup.
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Courses even with the sun Doth her mighty brother run.
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People ask me, 'Have you done much drag?' And I say, 'I don't think of it as drag. I'm playing a woman!'
