Marley Dias Quotes
My parents have taught me the value of reading and self-love through books that have characters that look like me and talk like me.
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Of course I get angry, but I want to use my brain a little bit and not just smash things.
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Every good movie I watch, the hero becomes my favourite. I start blushing every time a hero romances a heroine.
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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As independent filmmakers, we are actually deeply dependent on each other. The Spirit Awards are a public expression of those bonds, the intricate set of relationships and histories that we filmmakers depend on to make our most personal work.
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You cannot be in your offices every day doing nothing... and at the end of the day you expect to be paid.
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Once you are labeled 'the best' you want to stay up there, and you can't do it by loafing around.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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I do not play golf regularly, but I feel that hitting the moving ball in cricket is tougher than hitting a stationary ball as in golf, which requires more concentration and steady hands.
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I thought it was quite vain to say, I want to be a model.
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If I had my way, the woman I marry, she wouldn't be a part of Twitter and she wouldn't be on Facebook.
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While I have never been more excited about SecondMarket, I have chosen to move on from day-to-day management of the private company/fund business so that I can focus 100% of my energy on our digital currency business.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying to enlarge the spectrum.
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The last thing that should happen is funding cut for education; it should be increased. We need to put more money towards education, and anything else is abusive.
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I think what's going to happen with linear television is it's going to become more linear. It's going to become more about events and more about award shows, live sports - all those things that, really, you can't replicate.
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It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action.
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I do Taekwondo and sometimes I paint.
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Fortunately, I don't spend too much time reading or worrying about what people have to say, but the goal for me throughout this whole process - throughout my whole life - is to try to be happy.
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I think you can perform any poem. But what I believe is that the best examples of spoken word poetry I've ever seen, are spoken word poems that, when you see them, you're aware of the fact they need to be performed. That there's something about that poem that you would not be able to understand if you were just reading it on a piece of paper.
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My kids are coming up in a different time then me. Interracial couples are of the norm. With me, it's about making sure my kids understand the importance of education and having opportunities that I didn't. My goal as a parent is to make sure they don't take what they have for granted.
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In The Police, in a trio situation - which I've come back to now - it's just so wide open that it does actually provide this arena where you can play with a certain freedom.
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No amount of skill on the part of the actress can make up for the loss of youth.
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My parents have taught me the value of reading and self-love through books that have characters that look like me and talk like me.
