Dawn Angeliqué Richard (Dawn Richard) Quotes
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A lot of guys try to mingle with me because of who I am. If I encounter a guy with a clean heart, I will go by my instincts. I guess my man won't be from the film industry.
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I was so young, and making movies, going to the studio every morning at dawn was magic.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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I didn't volunteer; they asked me. I felt a duty to testify.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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At present there is no distinction among the upper ten thousand of the city.
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For me beauty is valued more than anything - the beauty that is manifest in a curved line or in an act of creativity.
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To dissociate politicians from capitalists is slightly disingenuous, to put it mildly. U.S. lawmakers are competitive and auction themselves to the highest bidder via the lobby system.
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I wanted to get out in the world, have a great job, make my mark, and see how far I could go. And I wanted to make good on the philosophy my mother drilled into us with all the subtlety of a Lady Gaga performance. I got it loud and clear. I would need to succeed, and then I could possibly be happy.
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Thou shalt free thyself from convention, from everyday morality.
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On 24 August 1939, as an officer in the reserve, I had to join my regiment in Potsdam.
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All we have is our vote. But it's powerful.
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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
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Our everyday lives are filled with complex decisions. We long for simplicity and ordinariness.
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It has been a long while since the United States had any imperialistic designs toward the outside world. But we have practised within our own boundaries something that amounts to race imperialism.
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I've never been with a losing team in my life, and I don't think I'll start now.
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So from an actor's perspective, you really have no idea how you're acting.
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I am much more productive late at night because I have no one to look to for entertainment aside from myself.
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Technology has made it possible to order food, buy clothes, get a ride - anything you can think of, really - at the touch of a button. But what about having the right people near you when you need them?
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Follow your image as far as you can no matter how useless you think it is. Push yourself.
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My parents, Mary Agnes Smith and Rowland Smith, both had to work since their early teens, she in the holiday boarding house of her mother and he in his father's market garden in Marton Moss, a village on the south side of Blackpool, just north of Saint Anne's-on-Sea.
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I love the atmosphere at the mall - everything about Christmas. I don't think anything specific gets me in the holiday spirit except for the holidays themselves.
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Literary confessors are contemptible, like beggars who exhibit their sores for money, but not so contemptible as the public that buys their books.
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I'm not a very open person.
