Donny Most Quotes
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One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.
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As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.
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I did some martial arts training for 'Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,' since the character was an assassin.
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Fortune and love favor the brave.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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The idea was never for me to be a career bureaucrat or career technocrat; it was more about where I could implement ideas and reform programs.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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A particularly beautiful woman is a source of terror. As a rule, a beautiful woman is a terrible disappointment.
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Eventually you love people - friends or lovers - because of their flaws.
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I know how to wrap my turban a little better now. In the beginning, it was a little weird.
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At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
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I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
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In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.
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There's a play that Chekhov wrote called 'Uncle Vanya,' and I when I was in school, I played Sonya, and sometimes people ask me if there was ever a role I could play again, that's definitely the role I would play again: Sonya in 'Uncle Vanya.'
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A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.
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Finding my way into a novel is always half the battle.
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I don't think many people anticipated how the Internet was going to revolutionize the way we disseminate information.
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It's difficult as an artist sometimes. There's a lot of pressure when it's your first album. You want to make something that's meaningful and timeless, not something that's trendy.
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I've become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that... basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so.
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Writers can express ideas and emotions that are important to them but have no other means of expression. Some of these ideas may be fantastic, and some of the emotions may be given clearer voice in fantastic fiction.
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People come. They go. Dying is the same as rehab or moving back to Missouri. It just means I won't be seeing them again.
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I've always been pretty serious and introspective.
