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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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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Once again the Naderites were onstage attacking the Educational Testing Service - the organization which develops and administers the scholastic aptitude tests...the reason for the wax is that the E.T.S. tests persist in showing some people to be smarter than others. And if some people are smarter than others, there might actually be some justification for an economic system in which some people have more money and authority than others.
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Acting is a hard way to make a living, and there's a kind of dark, somewhat seedy side to the whole aspect of fame and celebrity that's not really something I would want for my child - or want him to want, if that makes any sense.
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Little mirrors were attached to the front of their cars, at which they glanced to see where they had been; then they stared ahead again. I had thought that only beetles had this delusion of Progress.
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You don't knit because you are patient. You are patient because you knit
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'Redemption' sounds like a jubilee. Like a second line, if you will.
