Marley Dias Quotes
My mom was born in Jamaica and has always been around a community of black people, so she encouraged me to get out and act. My dad, on the other hand, is from suburban Massachusetts, so he had not been around a lot of black people.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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I have been acting since I was thirteen.
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I think going from doing TV and straight plays to Shakespeare is weird enough because you have this heightened language, and you are telling a story through metric poetry. But I think music is that place beyond poetry.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
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A lot of times on tour it's about, 'OK, where am I today? Wow, I'm in Costa Rica. What is their famous dish?' And it's about trying the food, and really experiencing it.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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In the present imperialistic milieu there can be no wars of national self-defense.
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The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot forever fence it out.
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My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice president of her own company. They taught me to work hard for everything and take nothing for granted. That's how I play.
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I've had good times and bad times. That's me. That's how I am.
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This industry's hard. The world is hard. Being young and black is tough.
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Law; an ordinance of reason for the common good, made by him who has care of the community.
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Stocks have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
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My mom was born in Jamaica and has always been around a community of black people, so she encouraged me to get out and act. My dad, on the other hand, is from suburban Massachusetts, so he had not been around a lot of black people.
