Donna Brazile Quotes
I enjoy politics, but if I had a third career - and I've had multiple careers - my third act would be acting.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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It was in India that I started my acting career, courtesy of my parents, long before I set foot on stage in England. They headed a company of travelling players performing Shakespeare up and down the land.
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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Indian hotels are doing well globally because they understand hospitality.
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Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
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People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
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I don't recall ever desiring to go as fast as possible.
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I don't talk much to offensive linemen in general.
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I live in Hollywood, California. It's absolutely nothing like Absaroka County, Wyoming. For me, it's a great escape and I really enjoy it.
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Something I learned when I was very young: with cooking, it doesn't matter where you are; you can always cook. You can end up in small village in Peru where somebody's cooking, take a spoon and taste it, and you might not be too sure what you're eating, but you can taste the soul in the food. That's what is beautiful with food.
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You must do as your people do. If my people are poor, I must be poor. People ask me, 'Why don't you find a personal coach or a private car?' I can't. Then I won't be part of my people.
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I don't think in terms of legacy or that kind of stuff. I've always thought that'll take care of itself if I did everything right on a day-to-day basis.
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The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
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Tolerance is you saying something crazy and me smiling and saying, 'That's nice.'
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But you see, I have played more good guys than I have played villains.
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I want to make movies, TV series, wherever the career takes me.
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My 50th birthday approaching felt like a big milestone to me. I've lived half a century. If I write about food and use my life as a fulcrum to move the story along, maybe I've lived long enough to fashion a narrative that has a happy ending.
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I think America is on the right track.
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I enjoy politics, but if I had a third career - and I've had multiple careers - my third act would be acting.
