Nell Carter Quotes
Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle.
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I'm not Cinderella.
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There was just a lot of comedy on the TV in the house, and my parents are both very funny.
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So I went to English school, secondary English school, so forget going to Mecca for my religious education.
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Thousands of years and many civilizations have defined a marriage as the union between one man and one woman. With few exceptions, those civilizations that did not follow that perished.
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I know all the critics.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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I redefined how I ate and exercised and have continued to keep that up because it feels great.
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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I've performed Schoenberg's 'Pierrot lunaire' many times.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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I can only think of music as something inherent in every human being - a birthright. Music coordinates mind, body and spirit.
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The capability of negotiating... is something that means you not only have to understand fully what you believe and what your national interests are but in order to be a really good negotiator, you have to try to figure out what the other person on the other side of the table has in mind.
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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I became aware that all sounds can make meaningful language.
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I try to swim every damn day I can, and I've learned to scuba dive and snorkel.
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To have God speak to the heart is a majestic experience, an experience that people may miss if they monopolize the conversation and never pause to hear God's responses.
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I've always been interested in how fast-moving our identity is and that I've never been able to pin down who I truly am. That inspires me to write, because I feel like that cements me a bit, in that I find my identity in being an artist.
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My mother, oddly enough, really wanted to pursue a career in law, but at the time, she had children and was working as a teacher.
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Being diabetic was not what I thought of as being normal, and I feared the stigma of having to take medicine and having people stick me with a needle.
