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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Being on a television series is sort of life-altering on every level.
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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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The events in the square, of course, made a deep impression on me and many other parents.
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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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Let us assume nothing, and we shall not be moritifed.
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A man can stand a lot as long as he can stand himself. He can live without hope, without friends, without books, even without music, as long as he can listen to his own thoughts and to the singing of a bird outside his window and to the far-away voice of the sea.
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We will not fail your expectations of us as a new nation dedicated to peace, democracy, and freedom.
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Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.
