Dawn Angeliqué Richard (Dawn Richard) Quotes
I couldn't do a record without knowing I'll translate it into something visual.
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You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them.
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'Life as a Dog' is when I really started to feel comfortable, like I had the due north on my compass.
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One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinvented herself. It's easier to stay in one look, one comfort zone, one musical style. It's inspiring to see someone whose only predictable quality is being unpredictable.
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All the jokes in my films, the comedy, they're not me, I just try to hold a big mirror up to us.
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Everyone needs help when they try something new.
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Hippy people had a hopeful idea of what they wanted the world to be like, then most of them changed into corporate Yuppies. But I still have that hippy thing underneath somewhere.
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I don't have any regrets about not having had children. What's the point? It's just something else to beat yourself up over.
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I'm the type of person to put myself in everybody else's shoes.
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Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.
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The poet existed among the cave men; he will exist among men of the atomic age, for he is an inherent part of man. Even religions have been born from the need for poetry, which is a spiritual need, and it is through the grace of poetry that the divine spark lives forever in the human flint.
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There's so much fakeness in the fashion world, but Mum and Dad have always given us a good work ethic and were quite worried at first about whether I could make a living from acting. They've been together for 29 years and share the same values. I really do want to have that kind of marriage myself.
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I am always friendly with my co-actors and even other actresses, too.
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I know the dangers and the seductions of the Middle East. It is part of my identity. I grew up among a people who routinely referred to the creation of the State of Israel as the Nakba - the catastrophe. And yet I fell in love with and married a Jewish American woman, the only daughter of two Holocaust survivors, both Jewish Austrians.
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I think there's something really thrilling to having to get people laughing about something, and then, when you have them in that comfort space, you can drop the weight into the texture of the story.
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A democracy, the realistic observer is forced to conclude, is likely to be idealistic in its feelings about itself, but imperialistic about its practice.
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John McCain's choice of Sarah Palin as running mate is the towering example of his poor judgment. Palin's ignorance of public affairs is monumental.
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Africa’s progress will depend on development that truly lifts countries from poverty to prosperity - because people everywhere deserve the dignity of a life free from want.
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Yesterday Sisley was looking for me everywhere. Madame Latouche told me that he wanted some information about the technique of painting fans. Well, this means my fans are spoken of.. .I only fear one thing: that they will finally say that's all I am good for! fans!
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I've got a couple of those Gossard Wonderbras. They are so brilliant, I swear, even I get cleavage with them.
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The Huron and Iroquois forests are peopled by my friends; with me, the despots of Europe and their courts are the savages.
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My roots are documentaries.
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I think the greatest hip-hop artist of all time is Jay-Z, without a doubt. He just keeps amazing me with his performance, and since '96, that guy has been producing at least one hit every summer and every winter. That's a pretty good resume.
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I thought everyone must know that a short jacket is always worn with a silk hat at a private view in the morning.
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I couldn't do a record without knowing I'll translate it into something visual.
