Debbie Allen Quotes
Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.
Quotes to Explore
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I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and you're not.
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One can't do anything alone in Haiti. Sharing and cooperation are so deeply woven into the culture that sometimes it's hard to have a separate thought.
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Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time to relax, and be the mom or take the kids on vacation when you need to wind down. So it's a matter of planning, and being able to map out your year or your week or let's start with the day. It is just being multi-tasking and being available.
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Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
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A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?
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I never quite toed the line. I was a bit disruptive. All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.' And now, that's what I do for a living.
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So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.
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I think I am more determined than ever in my future plans, and I have quite made up my mind that nothing must be suffered to interfere with them. I intend to make such arrangements in town as will secure me a couple of hours daily (with very few exceptions) for my studies.
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Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.
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When I happened to get into school, I felt like I could approach it as aggressively as things in the military.
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I'm a big sports fan. College football is my favorite.
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As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.
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Before the Great Chicago Fire, no one took notice of Patrick and Catherine O'Leary, two Irish immigrants who lived with their five children on the city's West Side.
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People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
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It's funny landing parts now where I'm somebody's mum. I remember the first time I was asked to play a mum. I was easily old enough, but because I didn't have any children, I thought, 'That seems really grown-up.'
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If you don't feel good in it, don't wear it, because you'll never look good.
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I think I've developed, as many people do, this sense of, 'Don't say the wrong thing, or else people will point at you and laugh.'
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This is a mistake. eBay bad and robotic, Craig's List human and good. And now on the way to selling out.
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Is Bill Clinton so good at politics, or are other politicians so bad?
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A man's rights rest in three boxes. The ballot box, jury box and the cartridge box. Let no man be kept from the ballot box because of his color. Let no woman be kept from the ballot box because of her sex.
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Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.
