Dee Dee Myers Quotes
It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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Acting is in your soul.
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I'm going to continue to work to be the best player in the world, and whenever that doesn't sound fun to me anymore, that's when it's over.
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Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.
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Mankind's feeling of responsibility to create a decent life and make it worth living with dignity has always been stronger than the will to kill life.
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At the end of the day, you can't have a vision; you have to have a hope. This is where the miracle comes in.
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I just came back from my hometown, making a movie about a kid who grew up just like me, and it was financed by white people in New York. Personally, I can't be angry. In my personal experience, the support was there.
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Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.
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I don't just want to support only Muslim women. I want to inspire women across the board, and I'm hoping they won't allow things to get in the way.
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I've never liked categories; I've never liked boxes; I've always tried to be unconventional as much as I possibly could.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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Sarcasm is like cheap wine - it leaves a terrible aftertaste.
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The first and simplest emotion which we discover in the human mind, is curiosity.
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.
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It ain't over till it's over.
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The interval between a cold expectation and a warm desire may be filled by expectations of varying degrees of warmth or by desires of varying degrees of coldness.
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Once I'm working on something, I don't do anything else. I'm mono-track.
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Spain and the United States share the same values of democracy, liberty and fundamental freedoms.
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The magic of the mechanisms inside each genetic structure saying exactly where that nerve cell should go - the complexity of these mathematical models is beyond human comprehension.
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If you ask someone if they like music, they look at you strangely. It seems to be a universal given. Like asking someone if they like breathing. It is like breathing. Or air, rather. Flowing without and within. A matrix within which our lives are set. The setting for the tableware of our beings.
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I have definitely emulated my mom's style more than anyone's. But that may be mostly to do with how often I steal her clothing.
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Never must the existence or the essence of man as a whole be made a stake in the hazards of action.
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It never occurred to me that I wouldn't go to college and have a career - as well as a family - of my own. Both my parents, but especially my mother, encouraged me and led me to believe that it was possible.
