Marley Dias Quotes
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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I don't miss acting at all.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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Since we can't count on the meat, egg, and dairy industries to protect animals from the most egregious forms of cruelty, what can we, as consumers, do? Opting out of paying someone to allow animals to die in a barn fire or at the slaughterhouse seems pretty reasonable.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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I always knew I wanted to make my own way; I never wanted to be dependent on my father.
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There are people that bring artists to me to look at it, and it's a question of whether I like their music and their look and if I think there's something they have that makes them different and commercial.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I've always watched the political shows.
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The test is to recognize the mistake, admit it and correct it. To have tried to do something and failed is vastly better than to have tried to do nothing and succeeded.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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I do a medley of hymns in all of my sets, whether I'm in an arena, in a theater, in an amusement park.
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Survival requires us to leave our prejudices at home. It's about doing whatever it takes - and ultimately those with the biggest heart will win.
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Sometimes I see through things when people are talking. I'm really sensitive to other people, so I can tell if somebody's putting on a front.
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Having grown up in the Middle East, eating beans for breakfast always seemed like a bizarre British eccentricity.
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I did commercial fishing in Alaska in college. I was the only girl on a fishing boat. It definitely tested so many aspects of my personality.
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It is not a new tactic for people to use any avenue they can to silence black activists.
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It is an extra dividend when you like the girl you've fallen in love with.
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People in the record business would say, Well, Pras, you know, you haven't been out in a while, maybe you should get today's hottest producer or rapper to do something.
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Black girl stories aren't just for black girls: they're for everybody.
