Brenda Holloway Quotes
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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I thought Beverly Hills was a gated community. I always drove around Beverly Hills because I thought that there's a guard that was going to stop me.
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
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A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.
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I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.
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I always had to genuinely like the actors I worked with and use my enthusiasm and vision to give them confidence to push their creativity and their humor.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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You can almost taste the pressure now.
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I love action films. I'd love to do an action drama. I'm always looking to give my character something action-oriented to do.
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I learned early on not to listen to either critique - the people who love you or the people who don't like you.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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Every day, you have to get up with new energy and new ideas to contribute to pushing the organization forward.
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I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.
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There's not a fortune to be made doing voiceover work unless you're one of the main voices on The Simpsons. See, there's The Simpsons, and then there's everything else.
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Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this.
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I've always loved the idea of changing myself, wearing costumes and disguises. It takes you back to being a kid, to dressing up.
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I do believe that if models look like children, then they shouldn't be sexualised.
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I'm blessed to have cool roles in these big movies.
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When I'm not acting, I'm usually sailing or camping or exploring or travelling or spending time in New Zealand.
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I would say my faith has become strengthened every time I have faced what I considered to be a trial, and there is no greater trial than being 14 and pregnant and not even knowing what it is.
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Motown's policy was to build one act at a time or their favorites.
