Jamaica Kincaid Quotes
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I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.
Laura Donnelly
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Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
Madchen Amick
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I've watched Urkel since I was a little kid.
Calvin Johnson
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When you don't know what the band looks like, it puts the emphasis on thinking and taking the music and message more seriously.
Adam Jones
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A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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Being from Israel and a Jew is complex already, but with France, there is a freedom and a mix of culture. I have met musicians from all over the world.
Yael Naim
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As long as I can contribute, I'll continue working.
Yusuf Hamied
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Ask the right questions if you're to find the right answers.
Vanessa Redgrave
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Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.
Lactantius
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As a father, I always want my son to be perfect. When he was young, I tried to train him in martial arts, but he said, 'I don't want to become like Bruce Lee's son, with everybody telling me how good my father was.' I just think my son is too lazy.
Jackie Chan
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I'm much too young to feel this damn old.
Garth Brooks
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I would like to get a good education, get married, and have kids.
Yana Kudryavtseva
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When I first had my eyebrows waxed, I was pretty disturbed.
Chiwetel Ejiofor
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I love Tig Notaro; I just think she's so awesome.
Kate Flannery
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And because it may be too great a temptation to human frailty, apt to grasp at power, for the same persons, who have the power of making laws, to have also in their hands the power to execute them, whereby they may exempt themselves from obedience to the laws they make, and suit the law, both in its making, and execution, to their own private advantage...
John Locke
Nazareth
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There are things I back off from trying to talk about, you know. Particularly my own work. Also, there may be things better left unsaid. At times I'd much rather talk about other (people's) work.
Garry Winogrand
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Governments, whatever their pretensions otherwise, try to preserve themselves by holding the individual down ... Government itself, indeed, may be reasonably defined as a conspiracy against him. Its one permanent aim, whatever its form, is to hobble him sufficiently to maintain itself.
H. L. Mencken
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Tomorrow exists even though I may not exist in it.
Jamaica Kincaid