Frederica Mathewes-Green Quotes
Jesus showed us how to be courageous and sacrificial while we die for our beliefs, not while we kill for them.
Quotes to Explore
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.
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You could say that we are living in an internally globalized country.
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When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
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I met my agent through a casting director here in Wilmington after I auditioned for a Disney movie.
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I'm highly distractable, and I have too many things on my mind very often. When I'm driving in the city, it drives me so crazy - the city traffic and the parking - I just take cabs everywhere.
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Love is like the measles. The older you get it, the worse the attack.
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My mom taught me to live by the three p's: to always be passionate, persistent, and prepared.
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Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
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Belief is thought at rest.
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I'm more of a tough girl, and I'm attracted to things that reflect that in my perfumes. That means sandalwood, musk, amber, and vanilla notes.
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I think it's always funny when somebody thinks you're going to do something super sexy and then you don't.
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People tell you everything changes when you have a kid, but what nobody says is you don't mind.
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I've never worried about how long the song is.
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Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual fear, as the parties you defeated may always regain power and work for your ruin.
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It is said that love makes the world go 'round - the announcement lacks verification. It's wind from the dinner horn that does it.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.
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I have to laugh because despite the destruction, we cannot let 'them' steal our pleasure. That is always the theme of my performances: I'm here to thrive, not just to survive.
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I try not to have a day pass where I don't read something from the Bible. It's like my sustenance to me.
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I trust that when people meet, we meet for a transcendent reason, and that the challenges we face in life are always lessons that serve our soul's growth.
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At The Gong Show... I was nervous, I was afraid, but I went out there and auditioned and they liked me. They asked me to come back and tape the show.
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Better to die, and sleep The never-waking sleep, than linger on And dare to live when the soul's life is gone.
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Jesus showed us how to be courageous and sacrificial while we die for our beliefs, not while we kill for them.
