Frankie Faison Quotes
Far too often, I have been accepted or rejected for work because of the color of my skin.
Frankie Faison
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
Viggo Mortensen
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I think as an actor you're used to having to travel, so wherever the work, is you're willing to go.
Laura Carmichael
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
Ted Turner
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You can't embarrass Joss Whedon, he's got no pride! He fully admits it. 'Oh, it's me. I'm little and goofy.' You can't wound his pride. He's too self-deprecating.
Nathan Fillion
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Initial excitement over the announcement that Enbridge was building a pipeline to Kitimat dampened considerably when people discovered that the number of permanent jobs for locals, in the end, would amount to some dock workers.
Eden Robinson
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
C. V. Raman
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I loved 'Dirty Sexy Money.' That didn't have a long enough shelf life. I would've liked to explore that character and play with that cast longer. That was a lot of fun to shoot.
Zoe McLellan
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Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.
Walter Cronkite
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
Faith Evans
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Many schools desperately need caring professionals like guidance counselors and social workers to ensure students' emotional, social and educational needs are met. But proposals to arm teachers are irresponsible and dangerous. The role of educators is to teach and nurture our children, not to be armed guards.
Randi Weingarten
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As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
Calvin Trillin
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I never said I wanted to be a lead actress; I never said I wanted to be a film actress. This need to trump everyone bewilders me. I'm only 25. I'm not better than anyone. I just want to watch other people and learn to be good.
Carey Mulligan
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I read very little contemporary anything... I don't think I read what other people read, but then why would I, considering what I do?
Alan Furst
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When you look at 'policy wonk' in the dictionary, the one picture you won't see is Donald Trump.
Mark Cuban
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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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As the stars make more and more money - one person gets $12 million, $14 million, $15 million, $20 million - everyone else is expected to work for peanuts. And that includes some extraordinary actors who are, today, working for peanuts because the production companies have decided they don't need to pay these people, and they don't.
Brian Dennehy
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And I've been acting for 39 years, so I define characters differently than I did in say Miami Vice.
Edward James Olmos
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Far too often, I have been accepted or rejected for work because of the color of my skin.
Frankie Faison
