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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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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We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory.
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In the end it is nothing other than the loving kindness with which the woman cares for her child that makes the difference. Her concern concentrates on one thing just like the Buddhist practice of concentration. She thinks of nothing but her child, which is similar to Buddhist compassion. That must be why, although she created no other causes to bring about it, she was reborn in the Brahma heaven.
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When I was about 9, my brother, who's six years older than me, started getting guitar lessons, and I wouldn't say that it inspired me to pick up an instrument: it was more me being like, 'Well, if he's getting guitar lessons, then so am I. I'm not missing out,' type of thing.
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Repetition yields constants. Constants create cultures.
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I couldn't do a record without knowing I'll translate it into something visual.
