Paloma Ayana Stoecker (Delilah) Quotes
I never in a million bazillion trillion years imagined that my life would have this many layers of love and richness.
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I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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You have to recognize at some point that even though you have the passion and creative level to be able to do something, you might have to do a lot of prep. Sometimes you just can't do it as quickly as you want to do it.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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I feel quite safe and isolated in Germany. My wife is very well known there. But I am only looked at when I am holding her hand.
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Everybody ought to have a lower East Side in their life.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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I don't move away from grief, rather through it.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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I just try to get away with as much as I can. I don't think that's very radical in the art world.
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We have no chance to comprehend what goes on there - it's so dramatic, and people are so poor. We all felt bad about being there. Filming in India felt like we were going to borrow something knowing that we were never going to give it back.
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Create your own visual style... let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others.
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The idea of the mulatto has been a gathering point for a wide variety of racial prejudices, fears, myths, and speculations.
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There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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I can achieve that by personally relating the words that I am saying to something I have known in my life.
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But all my life though, the very insistence on truth has taught me to appreciate the beauty of compromise. I saw in later life that this spirit was an essential part of Satyagraha. It has often meant endangering my life and incurring the displeasure of friends. But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.
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There's more to life than having things: a Rolls-Royce, a big house, bling bling.
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I never in a million bazillion trillion years imagined that my life would have this many layers of love and richness.
