Dawn Angeliqué Richard (Dawn Richard) Quotes
I like being in charge. I like being able to control my own destiny and ideas.
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Your dresses should be tight enough to show you're a woman and loose enough to show you're a lady.
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How can you tell your kid, 'You can be anything you want to be,' if you're not trying to do the same?
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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When I was rising eighteen I persuaded my parents to let me return to Australia and at least see whether I could adapt myself to life on the land before going up to Cambridge.
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I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.
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Crises are part of life. Everybody has to face them, and it doesn't make any difference what the crisis is.
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It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.
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Unless a Western's made money - doesn't matter who made the money, doesn't matter what the subject is - if the last one didn't make any money, you can't make another one for a four-year period. Westerns more than any genre.
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I don't think the way I portray mother's and son's relationships has anything to do with my age or generation. It has to do with what I lived with my own mother and what it's transformed into and the point of view it has given me on mothers and women. The way I was brought up with women. It's all about personal background.
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God is the indwelling and not the transient cause of all things.
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I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.
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In terms of script, Bollywood should learn from South Indian scripts. Not talking about the fights and action, I am talking about the drama bit.
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That every person is desirous to obtain, with as little sacrifice as possible, as much as possible of the articles of wealth.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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'The Replacements' is where I met Jon Favreau, and we just clicked like, you know, like kids at a camp.
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There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.
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Food service is a growth area for PepsiCo.
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In all likelihood, you've been treated by a Muslim doctor or served by a Muslim waiter or worked beside a Muslim computer programmer. Even if you think, 'I don't know any Muslims,' it's probably not true.
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Short stories are fiction's R & D department, and failed or less-than-conclusive experiments are not just to be expected but to be hoped for.
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A lot of people ask me, 'How did you have the courage to walk up to record labels when you were 12 or 13 and jump right into the music industry?' It's because I knew I could never feel the kind of rejection that I felt in middle school. Because in the music industry, if they're gonna say no to you, at least they're gonna be polite about it.
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There is one certain means by which I can be sure never to see my country's ruin: I will die in the last ditch.
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My wife loves to get all dressed up and go out, and I'm this gloomy Virgo. It works because of the mutual recognition that we are two democratic narcissists. She does what she has to do, and I do what I have to do. We respect that.
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I like being in charge. I like being able to control my own destiny and ideas.
