Dionne Bromfield Quotes
I wouldn't say my mother was my best friend, because that sounds odd, but we have a really tight bond and she is my friend on Facebook. Although she only goes on it to check up on me and sometimes we argue about it.
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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There can be no vulnerability without risk; there can be no community without vulnerability; there can be no peace, and ultimately no life, without community.
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Humor disarms people. It opens them up to starting a dialogue about things they wouldn't normally talk about. I don't understand how people who don't have a sense of humor get through life.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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My main thing is I'm going to compete on every play, try to be focused on both ends of the court. That said, I'll always bring my excitement, my swag, to the game.
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Passive fatalism can never be the role of a revolutionary party, like the Social Democracy.
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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I'm a very simple man. You've got to have, like, a computer nowadays to turn the TV on and off... and the nightmare continues.
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Miguel has this Prince, Marvin Gaye, old-school feel that I love.
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It hasn't been hard getting nominated, but winning it is another thing. The competition is tough.
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No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
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I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.
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L.A.'s always been good to me.
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What I wanted to do was use literature and different kinds of stories and poems as a springboard, tapping into the creativity of our teens - I wanted teenagers to come up with their own creative responses to literature - using books themselves as a starting point.
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I think the worst thing that can happen to a good actor is fame.
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Being a teenager is hard.
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Mutual fund managers want your money in their funds. They get paid based on assets under management.
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Well, the biggest rival I had in my career was me.
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My default answer to most of the questions my kids ask me is 'no.' I just start with 'no.' I let them fight for it a little bit.
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You can't turn a bad girl good, but once a good girls' gone bad, she's gone forever.
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'Vogue' is a bigger name than my name.
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When you strengthen women, you strengthen the world.
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I wouldn't say my mother was my best friend, because that sounds odd, but we have a really tight bond and she is my friend on Facebook. Although she only goes on it to check up on me and sometimes we argue about it.
