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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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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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 never thought I would write a memoir at age 40... but I did have this unique place in history.
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Consumers want products that tell stories, have magic, and inspire.
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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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All military and most commercial aircraft use our designs that process power from jet engines.
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Stripe makes it easy for anyone, be it an individual or a small business or a large business, to accept credit card payments on the Internet. We want to give control to the user or the business to define what the experience looks like. We work on a website or a mobile app, or whatever between that.
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Simple ingredients, treated with respect... put them together and you will always have a great dish.
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Money is a protection, a cloak; it can buy one quiet, and some sort of dignity.
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I couldn't do a record without knowing I'll translate it into something visual.
