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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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 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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Our dreaming capacity gives us a peep into the glorious realities that await us further on. It is the evidence of things possible to us.
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Pioneer women were very tough - they had to be, because the men go off for long periods of time, and the women would have to be able to protect themselves and their homes.
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These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties.
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I have been singing randomly, obsessively, obnoxiously for as long as I can remember.
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I love Peter Gabriel, and I've come so close to working with him a few times. We were on a movie soundtrack together, but we didn't actually write together.
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...it's my hypothesis that the individual is not a pre-given entity which is seized on by the exercise of power. The individual, with his identity and characteristics, is the product of a relation of power exercised over bodies, multiplicities, movements, desires, forces.
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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.
