Dawn Angeliqué Richard (Dawn Richard) Quotes
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At a young age, I had to give up a lot of things, like being able to hang out with my friends.
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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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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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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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Administrators are there because of the fans and the cricketers to run this game, so credibility of a game, or a board, or even a government for that matter, is important irrespective of what you do. If you are in public life, it is important.
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My goal is for a cooperative world at peace, using its resources to build, not to destroy.
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The very things that I would love about Barack and that you would love about Barack is that he is one of us. He's a normal guy. He's not a political animal.
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Tonight I think again of many days that are sacrificed for one night of love. Of the waste and the fruit of the waste, of plenty and of fire. And how painlessly-time.
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I'm not a very open person.
