Phylicia Rashad Quotes
There was a time when I couldn't watch sitcoms for a while because it was just cacophony, it was just noise.
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Nobody can teach what is inside a person; it has to be discovered for oneself and a way must be found to express it.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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Discipline is not a nasty word.
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It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.
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It took me just three months to pick up Hindi. I guess I'm a fast learner when it comes to languages.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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I don't know that I'll ever get to make my ideal film, because Frank Capra is dead.
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My daughter passed away in 2003.
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I'm sure I'm perceived in a more glam way. This is my breakout if you will.
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My dad went to jail for a long time. We lost everything, and the situation never resolved itself. My parents had this sort of passionate, disastrous desire for each other - not ideal to grow up in.
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Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel.
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I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.
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Small lending institutions lack the capability of their larger counterparts to hire the additional manpower necessary to deal with the hundreds of additional regulations created by Dodd-Frank.
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When Captain America is in a room full of Marvel superheroes, he is always Top Dog, even though his powers are pretty modest. He could be stood next to Thor, Iron Man, whoever. He is the one that everyone looks up to. To me, that is Superman, too. Even de-powered in the Legion arc, he was still Superman. Still Top Dog.
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I thought art was dead rabbits hanging by their feet on a wall. I went to Italy and saw all the religious paintings, and they didn't move me all that much. Then someone invited me to see this van Gogh exhibit at the Rosenberg Gallery in San Francisco.
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I have to prove everything. Especially when you're coming from an off year after the injuries, and you come back, and you have to prove a lot of things to the fans, to the team, to your teammates, to the sport. You have to prove a lot of things out there on the field.
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Sometimes I like to think it would be nice if you just had a character, and your personal life was your personal life. My life is definitely out there, you know?
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I think of Wakandan technology as organic technology. Most of their tech mimics nature because it comes from nature.
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For far too long, the people of Northern Ireland have been denied an equal voice and equal representation in government. It is time for the Assembly and Executive to be up and running and the people's business to be addressed.
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Our job, you know, in the entertainment profession is to try to illuminate and show people all sides of humanity, and it doesn't just mean that you can only do movies that are only about the good parts of us. You have to be able to eliminate the bad parts.
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Each time I spend with Stella McCartney, I like her better. So I was excited to be asked by her.
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There was a time when I couldn't watch sitcoms for a while because it was just cacophony, it was just noise.
