Nell Carter Quotes
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It is up to you to decide who to believe: the same people as usual or those who endanger their lives to save the country.
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A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
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I choose projects that resonate with me on some personal level and projects that I'm afraid to do. If I'm afraid to do them, then I usually say yes, because it means that I'm not ready to go there and deal with certain aspects of the script. And that means that I need to do it, because the things that scare you only make you better and stronger.
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Russia and China completely disagree with the international order that was established after World War II, and they're trying to take it apart right before our eyes.
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We can build new housing while preserving the quality and character of adjacent residential districts and ensuring infill development strengthens the surrounding neighborhood.
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I started working professionally as soon as I could, doing weddings and things like that in high school, while everyone else was having keg parties. I just felt destined to do it and really committed and driven; it was something that just felt right all my life.
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The 1920s and 1930s were a period of sensational productivity growth: new products were springing up all over the place, and most of those new products and new methods were developed by people who started their own companies.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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I have only one counsel for you - be master.
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I think preaching equality among unequals is the worst form of discrimination.
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Like a precious family heirloom, freedom is not just ours to enjoy, but to treasure, protect, and pass on to future generations.
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If you don't look good, we don't look good.
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It's always exciting when you love something and you get the opportunity to share it with more people.
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I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.
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People who cannot invent and reinvent themselves must be content with borrowed postures, secondhand ideas, fitting in instead of standing out.
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An inch of foreknowledge is worth ten miles of after-thought.
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Acting is a sport - especially working with Mark Rylance. There is competition involved. I have to be muscular, challenging, get audiences on side. It's extraordinary how Globe audiences join in - it's like competing at an event - I love it.
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For me as an actor, I find it's most creative when I'm bringing myself into the role rather than putting the role on. I feel like it's more of a cathartic experience.
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Egypt wants to be young again. Israel must show it never grew old. Egypt wants to wake up and dream again. Israel must learn to dream though it cannot sleep.
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Every novel generates its own climate, when you get going.
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You can get by on four hours' sleep, but you're not very exciting.