Ella Baker Quotes
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I had about four days of like, 'Pity party, woe is me, it's all over.' Then I did some research and spoke with doctors and got in contact with people who have MS, and I soon realized it's actually a lot more manageable than the kind of public perception of it is, and that's part of the reason why I've been so outspoken about it.
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Just because you used one set on one guy and had success doesn't mean you can use that exact set, that exact timing, the next time.
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I had my group of friends, you know, like my real group of friends, and then I had, like, party friends.
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I am not interested in producing fiction for Indian television at all, the reason being that I don't understand the medium. I can be a judge or a host; I can do that as an individual. But to produce TV content, you have to know the game.
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It's widely assumed that you can't compete with free, and that seems like a reasonable thing to think. But this has not been my experience.
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If there's ever been a dark moment in my life... well, I wanted to check out. Music was a big escape.
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Beauty comes from within, not from what you wear.
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Luckily, thanks to the way my parents taught me, I think I can handle the fame in the right manner.
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We need people who can actually do things. We have too many bosses and too few workers. More college graduates ought to become plumbers or electricians, then go home at night and read Shakespeare.
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In cross examination, as in fishing, nothing is more ungainly than a fisherman pulled into the water by his catch.
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I think each movie-making process is a very exhausting and satisfying and fulfilling experience for me.
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What I know for sure is that the only way to endure the quake is to adjust your stance. You can't avoid the daily tremors. Don't fight them. Just find a different way to stand.
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I think that certain players are going to approach the game differently. I am more of a quiet person. I like to have more of a focused energy and internal energy whereas some people need to be bouncing off the walls to be ready for the game.
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I really have a secret satisfaction in being considered rather mad.
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I'm not funny. What I am is brave.
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An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty.
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I would like to flood South Africa with black personages of all sorts of persuasions: writers, educators, businessmen, you name it. If you are black and have any clout at all, I would like to see you go to South Africa and look for yourself and come back and try to use the tools that you have at your command to try and help the brothers down there.
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In my career, I learned that giving your services for free gives you a good return on your investment, not just financially but morally. It supplements your personal integrity.
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I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.
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Then he took me off Jeannie and he gave me Millie the Model. That was a big break for me. It wasn't doing to well and somehow when I got on it became quite successful.
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No one is out to break your heart, it only seems that way.
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I didn't break the rules, but I challenged the rules.
