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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One of the ways the North Korea regime has kept power is by keeping its people ignorant of the living standards in the outside world. That's the underlying lie that supports the regime - not that their country is 'normal' but that they are better off.
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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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My dad is Caucasian, and my mom is African American. I'm half black and half white. Being biracial paints a blurred line that is equal parts staggering and illuminating.
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Gollum is my picture of Dorian Gray. He will be with me for the rest of life, and I will grow to look more like him as I get older.
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I would die of pleasure if 'The Day Today' or 'Brass Eye' came back. Though there's something really special about the fact that they only did one series of each.
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I never refused my help to any person black or white; and I liked the office nonetheless because there were neither fees nor salary connected with it.
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He gets bored with the effort of trying to think, and is unhappy because he knows thinking, or at least 'thinking-to-a-purpose' is on the black list of party activities.
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Black girl stories aren't just for black girls: they're for everybody.
