Dionne Bromfield Quotes
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For me, opposition is just another opposition.
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I married my high school sweetheart, and I do have two kids.
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Once a champion, always a champion.
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I don't want to say I took myself too seriously, but I put a lot of pressure on myself coming out of school. I saw so many people leave the business behind, certain opportunities disappear for folks who had to go into other professions. That kind of terrified me. As a result, I wanted things to happen really quickly.
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Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
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The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
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If you want to teach women to be great writers, you should show them the best, and the best was often done by men. It was more often done by men than by women, if we're going to be truthful.
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Puns are the droppings of soaring wits.
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I'm afraid Japanese people tend to collective hysteria.
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The human family is at a critical juncture. The world is moving through a great transition. This transition is economic, as the digital revolution advances and as new powers and groups emerge.
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You get funky things in Goa, so I like shopping there. Paris and Milan are also my preferred shopping destinations.
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I think one of the most difficult things for anyone who's played baseball is to accept the fact that maybe the players today are playing just as well as ever.
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Turkish cuisine is, to my mind, one of the most exciting and accomplished in the world.
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I have realized that intensity is my unique point. I don't have to attempt it; it's innate. So, when every actor is seeking his individuality, I guess I have already found mine.
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I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.
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I'm certainly curious about people. As a kid, I moved around a lot. I was raised in a lot of different places, and thanks to working in the movies, I've gotten to keep traveling. I've always been interested in other cultures and languages.
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Often, when I work with a vocalist, I like to focus on the melodies first.
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I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble. Really, it's okay to reserve judgment until the evidence is in.
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Successful fiction does not need to be validated by 'real life'; I cringe whenever a writer is asked how much of a novel is 'real'.
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My wife and I both grew up with parents who were very young. Her mom was, I think, 17 or 18 when she was born; my mom was 15 when I was born. So, as we got older, we started thinking a lot about that - about the time that those people missed because we came along when we did and because they devoted so much of their lives to taking care of us.
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Any system or blueprint for success is better than none at all. Think on paper.
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Much corporate giving is charitable in nature rather than philanthropic.
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I love working in New York theater.
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I'm not a wannabe Miley Cyrus.
