Dominique Dawes Quotes
I did do Broadway for a little less than a year and realized quickly I don't have a passion for it and, more importantly, I don't have a talent in it.

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I don't wear a lot of color because I live in New York, and I'm sort of color-blind, so colors don't match to me a lot of the times, and it makes me anxious. So I'll always defer back to black.
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I give all the glory to God. It's kind of a win-win situation. The glory goes up to Him and the blessings fall down on me.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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Practically, I am interested in television because it keeps me home and it's fast, and I exist in independent films mostly, and you don't get paid for those, or you don't get paid enough.
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I love gay Mardi Gras in Sydney, which is a big parade, a big march that thousands and thousands of people participate in. And there's one little group... well it's not little, it's got hundreds of people marching, and they're all very sweet, middle-aged and elderly people who are the parents of gay children who are out and proud.
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As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
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Movies are a complicated collision of literature, theatre, music and all the visual arts.
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All novels attempt to cut neural routes through the brain, to convince us that down this road the true future of the novel lies.
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
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It's an infinite creative universe to explore so why chase conservative options?
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People had this image of the Jacksons as the perfect American family and I destroyed that image. But what people have to understand is writing that book was very healing for me.
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What did Christ really do? He hung out with hard-drinking fishermen.
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Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
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We have a 25-year head start for the stories of 'Scorpion.' By the time we get to Season Two and Three, the stuff that happened because of Season One will actually fuel Season Three. So it'll become a self-sustainable show.
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To me, no matter who you're casting for what role, if something's authentic, usually you can mine something good there.
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What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.
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Bobby Knight told me this: 'There is nothing that a good defense cannot beat a better offense.' In other words a good offense wins.
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The continual awareness of what was going on made me feel ashamed I wasn't saying anything. I burst out because I could no longer play that game any more, it was just too much for me.
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A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.
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Sleeping is not something I do a lot of.
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Even when I first started modeling, my loyalty to those girls like Molly Goddard, Ashley Williams, and Dilara Findikoglu was important. I like to support them as much as I can. For me, it's as important to walk in their show or wearing their clothes as it is doing a Marc Jacobs show.
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Passion and marriage are essentially irreconcilable. Their origins and their ends make them mutually exclusive. Their co-existence in our midst constantly raises insoluble problems, and the strife thereby engendered constitutes a persistent danger for every one of our social safeguards.
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I did do Broadway for a little less than a year and realized quickly I don't have a passion for it and, more importantly, I don't have a talent in it.