Donald Byrd Quotes
It's an incredible dilemma to be an artist of color and to always be in denial about that, saying, 'I'm a choreographer first and then I'm black,' when in fact, that's not the case. I'm black first and then I'm also a choreographer.
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Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.
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Don't trust anyone over 30.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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The thing I love about vampires that I find so fascinating is that, unlike other sci-fi creations, they aren't monsters from the get-go, they're human beings first... and so what kind of human you are would dictate what kind of vampire you would be.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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I was born by myself but carry the spirit and blood of my father, mother and my ancestors. So I am really never alone. My identity is through that line.
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You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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I got beat up sometimes in the girls' bathroom.
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Find your own specific voice in filmmaking and go for it. Either people will get it or they won't and that's what it's all about.
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Living in Cape Breton, it's really all about fiddle music, so it's not like there were other instruments out there that tempted me and it was like I had to decide which one. It was automatically fiddle, because it's the predominant instrument in Cape Breton Island.
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I don't know how television or radio is going to survive without newspapers because that's where they get all their news. It's going to be hopeless.
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I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.
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We must be our own before we can be another's.
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I will try to give my 100% in the field and do my job.
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At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.
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I think the name of the show, 'This American Life' - we named it that just because it seemed like it made the thing feel big. But we don't think about whether it's an American story or not. We happen to be Americans. I think for the stories to work, they have to be universal.
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I love the American dream. I feel this is the place I was supposed to be in. It's beautiful. I love it.
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Innumerable confusions and a feeling of despair invariably emerge in periods of great technological and cultural transition.
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We can't do everything with a budget, but we can put the country on much sounder financial footing.
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I have never witnessed, nor will I live long enough to witness, a more simplistic crime than me stealing your identity.
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I find it incredibly romantic that people should fight for a cause they believe in and be prepared to die for it.
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I shall here present the view that numbers, even whole numbers, are words, parts of speech, and that mathematics is their grammar. Numbers were therefore invented by people in the same sense that language, both written and spoken, was invented. Grammar is also an invention. Words and numbers have no existence separate from the people who use them. Knowledge of mathematics is transmitted from one generation to another, and it changes in the same slow way that language changes. Continuity is provided by the process of oral or written transmission.
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It's an incredible dilemma to be an artist of color and to always be in denial about that, saying, 'I'm a choreographer first and then I'm black,' when in fact, that's not the case. I'm black first and then I'm also a choreographer.
