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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I don't think at Pixar we'd ever make something that was too scary for general audiences.
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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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Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.
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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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The people of the United States are one of the people I most admire in the world. The only thing I don't understand is why a country that manages to do so well cannot do better in choosing its president.
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There were plenty of reasons to suspect Obamacare might have been a colossal failure - although none of them had to do with death panels, huge lines for treatment, a government takeover of health care, etc.
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Racing thoughts was the biggest hurdle to consistent meditation for me. I could sit down, but then I was left with this interior world of thoughts.
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There is nothing more fundamental for public workers to know if they are going to be partly laid off.
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Cities can be places that represent the best of our ideals: where Americans of all different backgrounds can come together and, through their interactions, and even through their unity, spawn true American greatness.
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I couldn't do a record without knowing I'll translate it into something visual.
