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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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
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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 want to make a name for myself.
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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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I think it's a mistake to go after someone just based on looks. But I always respond to people who don't act that interested in me.
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I just didn't know who was going to be my partner. I knew that once I had grown to be a man that I was going to attract the person that I deserved to be with, or deserved to be with me.
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It's a little counterintuitive to people, that doing what people don't expect ends up being what people do expect. But that is true of Mac.
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We have to consciously study how to be tender with each other until it becomes a habit because what was native has been stolen from us, the love of Black women for each other.
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Every time I work on a new set, I take whatever I can from it and learn as much as I can around the people who I am working with.
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I was not only the first woman to become secretary of state, I was the first [U.S.] secretary of state of the 21st century. I was the first secretary of state to own a Web site, to visit Internet cafes, and to make Internet access a part of policy.
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Black girl stories aren't just for black girls: they're for everybody.
