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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We do high heels, and people know us for that, but the idea of wearing a flat from day to night feels special.
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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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I think my track record speaks for myself... I have been endorsed by the African Union, but I am a prosecutor for 121 states parties and this is what I intend to be until the end of my mandate.
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There are so many things that have to go right for a movie to be good that it's a miracle whenever one is.
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I love fantasizing about what my next meal is going to be; it's probably my favorite topic of conversation.
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'I think that the idea of straight edge, the song that I wrote, and the way people have related it it, there's some people who have abused it, they've allowed their fundamentalism to interfere with the real message, which in my mind, was that people should be allowed to live their lives the way they want to.' 4
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I'm a little Italian girl from New Haven who, as an actor, gets to jump classes through language.
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I've written in every imaginable location; a repurposed closet, the kitchen table, the bleachers while my kids had basketball practice, the front seat of the car when they were at soccer. In airports. On trains. In the break room when I was supposed to be wolfing down dinner. In the back of classrooms when I was supposed to be paying attention.
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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.
