Frederica Mathewes-Green Quotes
The Christmas story has such power and such appeal every year. There are other stories we get tired of. You think of your favorite movie; you don't want to watch it 15 times.
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual cortex of rats. Neuroscience mainly exposed me to a way of thinking - about experimentation, about what you believe to be true and how you could prove it - and how to approach things in a methodical manner.
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The fairytale has turned into a nightmare.
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I don't see a white woman. I see a black woman, even though my mother is white. Knowing that has made my life easier, I think.
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If it is a mistake of the head and not the heart don't worry about it, that's the way we learn.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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A lot of my fans are young and hip and enjoy my pop album and know the lyrics to those songs as well, which is a real compliment to me.
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I'll work out with my trainer twice a week, and I'll do some Power Pilates and might throw in some yoga. I love to row also. The main thing for me is just to move every single day for 30 minutes to an hour.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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I believe that how you feel is very important to how you look - that healthy equals beautiful.
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The first term of the Clinton administration was very jolly. Everybody was running around meeting people and of course, in the second term, everyone went down the black hole, which also happened at the end of the Reagan administration.
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The thing that's protected me creatively is that the movies have made profits.
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The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.
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I'm a big fan of all those singing competition shows.
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I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don't have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.
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There must've been some part of me that wanted to make my mark. But there was never a defining moment.
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It seems like when I first started, people got into comedy because they wanted to be good comedians.
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I don't plan my roles or my films.
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I have a thing for men's boxer briefs and a tank top. If I'm wearing them, I'm a happy gal.
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Defeat creates orphaned thoughts.
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Many, many years ago, I stood on the stage and told bad jokes and did Sophie Tucker as an impersonation, and nobody looked up; and suddenly, I looked down and said, 'Sir, I'm getting fed up with you. Either you watch, or I'm going to suck your neck,' or words to that effect, and suddenly people started to laugh.
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I think book adaptations, the best one to me is like 'Brokeback Mountain.' Which is a short story, 21 pages, that expands so beautifully into a movie.
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The Christmas story has such power and such appeal every year. There are other stories we get tired of. You think of your favorite movie; you don't want to watch it 15 times.
