Opal Tometi Quotes
We actually know that all lives do matter. And we believe it is so much so that we had to create Black Lives Matter.
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For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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It's remarkable what a new kidney does to your life. I have no complaints... I'm pretty amazed. I have been working on my stamina.
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A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.
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We have one of our priests in prison right now, Steve Kelly, for his antiwar actions, and three of us in the community are forbidden to visit him because we're all convicted felons.
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The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, they aren't monsters from the get-go, they're human beings first... and so what kind of human you are would dictate what kind of vampire you would be.
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I had one girl tell me last night that I'm the greatest thing ever, that she wants to aspire to be me. Just stuff like, 'You're my idol. I love you.' It's awesome. It's what it's all about.
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I'm not playing for other musicians. We're trying to reach the guy who works all day and wants to spend a buck at night. We'll keep him happy.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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If I go out there and am myself, and I do what makes me comfortable and what I think is true to my artistry, and they don't like it, then that's fine. I walk off stage, and I know there's nothing there's nothing I could have done differently.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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Even among those who I would not count as 'friends,' I have met many people online who have simply commented on my work or are interested by what I do.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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To all my people back in Nashville who have been there from the start, you put your faith in me. You were there for the long haul.
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When I write I simply follow my heart. And my flights of fantasy. It is not done with a conscious effort. I'm continually inspired and write reflexively.
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Alan Ladd was a marvelous person in his simplicity. In so many ways we were kindred spirits. We both were professionally conceived through Hollywood's search for box office and the types to insure the box office. And we were both little people. Alan wasn't as short as most people believe. It was true that in certain films Alan would climb a small platform or the girl worked in a slit trench. We had no such problems together.
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One trouble with growing old is that it gets progressively tougher to find a famous historical figure, who didn't amount to much when he was your age.
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I don't think everything is going to get peachy ever. But I think we have to fight for what we believe in.
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The secret of biography resides in finding the link between talent and achievement. A biography seems irrelevant if it doesnt discover the overlap between what the individual did and the life that made this possible. Without discovering that, you have shapeless happenings and gossip.
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We actually know that all lives do matter. And we believe it is so much so that we had to create Black Lives Matter.
