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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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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You've got to realize. In the western world, regardless of what color you are, what title the music is, it's all played by the same notes.
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And like I say, I think we've got other cases other than Iraq. I do not think the problem of global proliferation of weapons technology of mass destruction is going to go away, and that's why I think it is an urgent issue.
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Maybe one day there will finally be an education for electronic music.
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I'm really fascinated and you know I've been wondering about that usage of language, various breathing techniques and why in these practices language is being used in another way.
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Believe nothing you hear, and only one half that you see.
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My mother is an actress, and she used to drag me from theater to theater and reading to reading.
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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.
