Jewell Parker Rhodes Quotes
I think it's always natural for children to rebel against their parents and establish their own identity. And also, I think parents get invested in, you know, doing the right thing? And so their anxiety about being good parents might, in a way, affect a relationship negatively.
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The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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There are many reasons I feel at home in the U.K., but if I were asked to pinpoint the moment I knew I'd arrived, it might well be when I realised the British shared my love of fritters.
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Renouncement: the heroism of mediocrity.
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I eat to live and not the other way around. As a vegetarian, I'm not at all fussy about food and can make do with anything.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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I think that cancer is a life form that exists out there, and it exists in us. I think even the concept of healing is a spiritual principle that we have to really look at. I think the word itself is something we ought to get rid of, because it implies that there is illness - that there is something wrong.
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A jackass can kick a barn down, but it takes a carpenter to build one.
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I do find walking is fundamental to my creative process.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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There's so much bullying with young people and them feeling like they can't come out, and they don't know what to do. And it's something that you have to work through. And, you know, for me, it was - I came out, and then I went back in for a minute. And then I came out, and I was like, 'You know what? This is who I am.'
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You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.
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There really has not been a strong Republican message to either the poor or the African American community at large.
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I think Gore does have to worry. He is tied to Bill Clinton. We know that there were telephone calls that he made from his office. We know that there were visits to the Buddhist temple.
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The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.
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I always try to find something I like about the bad guys and then try to find the mistakes and the flaws in the good guys.
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I'm the youngest of five – three girls and two boys. There was one record player for the seven of us. It was good for me, because I got to hear everyone else's music.
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I told them the producers I couldn't compound the lie that Black fathers don't care about their children. I was proud of the family life I was able to introduce to television.
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Every role that you accept makes you grow in some way. It's part of the creative process.
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Healthy and nourishing food was the only alpha and omega of rural economy.
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I think it's always natural for children to rebel against their parents and establish their own identity. And also, I think parents get invested in, you know, doing the right thing? And so their anxiety about being good parents might, in a way, affect a relationship negatively.
