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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My chest bumps like a dryer with shoes in it.
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Every person in the organization must change inside their hearts and minds, so that they themselves become principle centred.
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I like to find the beauty in the ugly. When I'm in a thrift store, I gravitate toward pieces I know I'll wear a ton, and insane pieces that I'm sure most people would consider gross. But I find them inspiring. Our van is currently stocked with some of my random findings from this tour. Maybe I'll call my aesthetic 'van fashion.'
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I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide.
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Florida doesn't need an immigration law.
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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.
