Paloma Ayana Stoecker (Delilah) Quotes
You know how most kids have posters of sports heroes on their walls? They gave me reams of the old news copy, and I had those taped in my bedroom. And I would practice reading the news.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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If you will be the best that you can be right where you are, God will promote you and give you more.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.
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Live your days on the positive side of life, in tune with your most treasured values. And in each moment you'll have much to live for.
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The only time I can't sleep is on a plane, when I am literally keeping it in the air with my brain.
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I can tell you Donald Trump's products may not be made in America, but Donald Trump was made in America.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I think I know I've been working very hard for the family business, sometimes those days are long days and I think if I know I'm working hard and pulling my weight, both working and playing hard at the same time, I think everyone who I work with can see I am there pulling my weight.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat.
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It wasn't books that inspired me to write. For me, inspiration was simple, immediate: I got it from eating, dancing, talking. I got it from life lived, things touched, from sensuality, from love of life, from our irrefutable connection to the earth.
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I just wish that people will be kinder to me when I pass away.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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When I was born, some of our relatives came to our house and told my mother, 'Don't worry, next time you will have a son.'
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Native trees are so important to our ecosystem.
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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
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The things that people won't totally accept come in all shapes and sizes and forms, and I can relate to that in my own youth.
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People talk about Japanese kids as being inward-looking. But my experience is that if you offer them an opportunity, they'll take it.
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If a man can... make a better mousetrap, the world will make a beaten path to his door.
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You know how most kids have posters of sports heroes on their walls? They gave me reams of the old news copy, and I had those taped in my bedroom. And I would practice reading the news.
