Debbie Allen Quotes
I got my dailies every day, although I couldn't always look at them because I was usually preparing for the next day's shoot, both as an actress and as the director.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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TV, film, and theater are considered art, and art is a reflection of life. What happens in life includes violence, unfortunately.
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I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.
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I'm the worst employee in the world. I'll cheat and steal time and resources from my employer, although I'll con everybody into believing I'm essential to the operation.
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I played cello in my high school orchestra.
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As a beat reporter covering the CIA and intelligence world after the terrorist attacks of 2001, I could sense that many things I couldn't see or understand were changing, expanding, getting so big they were difficult to manage.
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What matters is discovering myself under the veneer, under the layers that are wrapped around me. There are two 'yous'; there's 'you', the real you, and then there's the image.
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What's certain is that a totalitarian enclave like Cuba's can't continue to exist, so change will definitely come there, eventually.
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Real education should educate us out of self into something far finer; into a selflessness which links us with all humanity.
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Illinois has the opportunity to lead the country in providing more affordable health care options to its citizens.
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It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.
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I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen.
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With so much evidence of depleting natural resources, toxic waste, climate change, irreparable harm to our food chain and rapidly increasing instances of natural disasters, why do we keep perpetuating the problem? Why do we continue marching at the same alarming beat?
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The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.
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I think sometimes my controlling instincts came out of a fear of other people.
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I think Gotye is really dope. The music that I enjoy listening to isn't as intense as my music is.
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Hope can be the most wonderful thing in the world or it can crush your heart like an eggshell.
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Certain things you have to stumble on to. They can't be preprogrammed.
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My niece was very much caught up in the vampire craze for young adults, and she thought having a vampire boyfriend would be a cool thing. What do you do on a first date? The more I thought about it, the more fun I had imagining what you'd serve a vampire for dinner.
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We didn't grow up overly religious, but there was an understanding that you had a duty as a citizen to help your fellow man.
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Although there's a lot of focus on the Lib Dems, we need to keep our eyes on the far right of the Tories, who I suspect will become increasingly impatient in their appetite for tax cuts, deregulation and shrinking the state even further.
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If you do not feel equal to the headaches that psychiatry induces, you are in the wrong business. It is work - work the like of which I do not know.
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I got my dailies every day, although I couldn't always look at them because I was usually preparing for the next day's shoot, both as an actress and as the director.
