Dawn Angeliqué Richard (Dawn Richard) Quotes
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I can't speak for readers in general, but personally I like to read stories behind which there is some truth, something real and above all, something emotional. I don't like to read essays on literature; I don't like to read critical or rational or impersonal or cold disquisitions on subjects.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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It's well proved economics that if a country which is rich and a country that is poor come together in global trade, sooner or later the standard of living of the poor country will go up towards that of the rich country.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
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Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
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I'm very proud of 'Valhalla Rising.'
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All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex and vital.
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I've got my Grammys on top of my piano and I look at them when I play.
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When you make your living as a singer, you have to go where the gigs are.
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I want to challenge the best, and I'm ready.
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Unfortunately, modeling takes you with no transition from being a girl to being a business woman.
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In a very real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read.
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Slowly, ideas lead to ideology, lead to policies that lead to actions.
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It's been a dream for me since I was six years old to go to the Olympic Games and to finally have that dream realised is something massive for me.
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The idea of any social obligation ... just the idea of it embarasses my thoughts for a day, and sometimes it's since the day before that I worry, and don't sleep well, and the real affair, when it happens, is absolutely insignificant and justifies nothing; and the case repeats itself and I never learn to learn.
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Knowledge about things beyond our immediate environment may be acquired through deduction, if the initial premises are believed to be correct.
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I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.
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Laughter is an instant vacation.
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After all the fertile land in the immediate neighbourhood of the first settlers were cultivated, if capital and population increased, more food would be required, and it could only be procured from land not so advantageously situated.
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Planning is thinking beforehand how something is to be made or done, and mixing imagination with the product - which in a broad sense makes all of us planners. The only difference is that some people get a license to get paid for thinking and the rest of us just contribute our good thoughts to our fellow man.
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'Redemption' sounds like a jubilee. Like a second line, if you will.
