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.
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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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When I started giving talks about women's history, one of the things that bothered me was the tendency to say, 'Well, everybody was totally oppressed and suddenly in 1964 we rose up, got our freedom, and here we are.' It dismisses the women who fought for rights for several hundred years of our history up to that point.
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When the game starts, you don't really look at uniforms.
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The kids are old enough now - I just want to let them be kids. I don't want to comment on them too much. They're at an age where I just want to let them be kids.
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Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.
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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.
