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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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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Forgiveness in any aspect of something that is complex is the greatest tool.
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But if you listen to great piano players, both classical and jazz, there's a huge range of dynamics and colors and emotional expression that's possible with the instrument.
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The war against terror is every bit as important as our fight against fascism in World War II. Or our struggle against the spread of Communism during the Cold War.
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Sometimes I have wondered whether life wouldn't be much more amusing if we were all devils, and no nonsense about angels and being good.
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When you do a show eight times a week, you are constantly living in the same world for that whole time, but when you have such drastically different characters and circumstances, you have to find a way to take a moment to reconnect.
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It's not about doing something that's as big as 'Hamilton.' That may never happen again, and that's okay.
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Michael Ralph brilliantly plays the street prophet, a West Indian who foreshadows the Harlem riot.
