Dawn Angeliqué Richard (Dawn Richard) Quotes
I watched my parents lose everything, from a house to birth certificates. We were homeless for about six months, then we stayed in Baltimore, and my parents got jobs.
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People take things so seriously.
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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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Do your eye shadow first, then your foundation. That way, you can clean up any mess without starting all over again.
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When you're in your 20s, your 30s, even, you have - at least, I had - vast ambitions, and you sit around mooning about these things, and you're depressed, because you haven't done them. And it takes you a long time to come to the realization that if you can't be John Updike, well, then, you can't.
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There are things I take sides about, like capital punishment, which it seems to me there is only one side about: it is evil. But there are two or three sides to sexual harassment, and the moment you get into particular cases, there is injustice in every conceivable direction. It's a mess.
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The story of civilization is, in a sense, the story of engineering - that long and arduous struggle to make the forces of nature work for man's good.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.
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I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
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People always ask me if I'm nervous about the intense sci-fi fans. To me that doesn't seem weird or scary. I get really intense about my favorite sci-fi shows, my favorite shows in general.
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
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Let us not curse the darkness. Let us kindle little lights.
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The quality of a timeless song is that it's catchy, meaningful and relatable.
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Violence is a tool of the ignorant.
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Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.
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In 1934, the American Jewish charities offered to find homes for 300 German refugee children. We were on the SS Washington, bound for New York, Christmas 1934.
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Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
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Beloved, let the fact of what our Lord suffered for you grip you, and you will never again be the same
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Every journalist owes tribute to the evil one.
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I love big budgeted, epic rock landscapes. That's what turns me on.
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I believe in 'soulmates,' especially growing up and seeing how much my parents loved each other. They always said that they had been married in past lives, too.
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Because I have two houses, I invariably get immersed in a book and then discover it's at the other house.
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I watched my parents lose everything, from a house to birth certificates. We were homeless for about six months, then we stayed in Baltimore, and my parents got jobs.
