David Robinson Quotes
That's what university life is all about. Challenging, questioning, enjoying good people and good friends, and pushing yourself to the limit.
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I think of myself as a cover girl. But I would never do some kind of cheesy magazine.
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I am Damian Lewis, not Daniel Day-Lewis.
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I read my books to writing workshops and friends, and I'm often focussed just on keeping them entertained. I never think about marketing at all.
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The key is working with great directors. A film is so many different people and all their talents, but particularly the directors, because of the idiosyncrasies of that person.
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Deficiency motivation doesn't work. It will lead to a life-long pursuit of try to fix me. Learn to appreciate what you have and where and who you are.
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We all know guys who've had their hearts broken in real life; we just don't usually see it in the movies.
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I'm not that good a player, and I'll be the first to admit that. I might be a three or four grand-slam winner; I might be a two grand-slam winner, I don't know.
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The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
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A lot of newspaper columns used to be written in a rat-a-tat-tat, fast-paced style - and they tended to be funny. They were a little relief from the grimmer, grayer parts of the newspaper, and one of the best people at doing this was Will Rogers.
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I've written a few songs that have to do with being in a relationship, the bad and the good.
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Nobody should be too boastful or too proud about their security because there are people who have a major interest in cracking the security of networks, the security of companies.
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It was easy to persecute me without people feeling ashamed. It was easy to vilify me and project me as a woman who was not following the tradition of a 'good African woman' and as a highly educated elitist who was trying to show innocent African women ways of doing things that were not acceptable to African men.
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Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
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Life is one long jubilee.
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Shoot, there's a committee to tell you everything at a record label. You definitely have to know who you are if you want to look like you at the end of the process. We've all seen people get record contracts, and by the time they're spit out by the machine, we don't even recognize them.
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It's a pretty brutal process, having a baby.
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I don't have any plans to pursue film acting. It's not my thing anymore, if it ever was. Yes, I do still act sometimes. But when I do, it's with people I know and trust, people who respect me as a person and appreciate what I have to offer.
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But in the meantime I became accustomed to the writing life and it would be hard to change now - partly because of the salary cut if I went to my other love, teaching; and partly because I still have stories to tell, even though it isn't all that fun doing the work anymore.
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I could easily have decided that life was cruel, that being black meant everything was stacked against me.
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What has always attracted me in life is poetry. Any genre can have poetry. For me, poetry contains truth.
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The volunteer military has always been most enthusiastically, even devoutly, embraced by those who would not themselves dream of volunteering - or of encouraging their children to do so.
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I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.
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You can't hide behind race any more. You can't hide behind class structure any more. You can't hide behind family. You need to produce.
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That's what university life is all about. Challenging, questioning, enjoying good people and good friends, and pushing yourself to the limit.
