Patrisse Cullors Quotes
I think so much of my life had me growing up under extreme poverty and really challenging conditions, with having the police in my neighborhood and seeing the impact of over-incarceration. Having a father love up on me and remind of who I was, and my strength against those conditions, really shaped why I'm an organizer today.
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I love working with other actors and other people - you know, stand-up - it's lonely; it's just you out there and the audience. But it's fun working with other actors. I love doing that, too.
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The iPod made music mobile, but today, how many devices do you need to walk around with? You want it on just one. And inevitably that's going to be the phone.
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Don't spend more than 10% of your marketing/PR budget on a trailer. Trailers have to be marketed, too. So, far too many authors wind up marketing their trailers instead of their books.
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In the 1970s in New York, everyone slept till noon. It was a grungy, dangerous, bankrupt city without normal services most of the time. The garbage piled up and stank during long strikes by the sanitation workers. A major blackout led to days and days of looting. The city seemed either frightening or risible to the rest of the nation.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.
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The reason why I'm a conservative is because conservative policies work and they improve opportunities. They are the avenue for climbing the economic dream.
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When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.
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I was in college in the '60s, and the whole feminist movement had swept me up.
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You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
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In the early stages of our involvement in Vietnam, basically I felt that our course was right. My concern grew with the concern of the American people.
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From today I am no longer a racing driver. I'm retired and I am very happy.
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You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry, don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.
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Why is partying and having a good time bad?
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I think when you're looking for people to interview, you want to make it fair and honest. You're not just bringing people on so you can beat them up or, you know, make fools out of them or something.
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It's hard separating work from personal life.
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That's what's so special about 'One Life to Live:' it's just this real family in the sense of, we're only as strong as our weakest link. It behooves us to help people who haven't done the genre because it makes us all look better.
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One's mind has a way of making itself up in the background, and it suddenly becomes clear what one means to do.
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When there's so much choice, it can get overwhelming and it's hard to make a choice.
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If only one in 1,000 people that I talk to goes on to write a good book, that's one more good book that I've helped along... and maybe it will be a book I love myself five or 10 years down the line.
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I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me feel grateful.
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Learning is the gateway to adventure.
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My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it.
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I think so much of my life had me growing up under extreme poverty and really challenging conditions, with having the police in my neighborhood and seeing the impact of over-incarceration. Having a father love up on me and remind of who I was, and my strength against those conditions, really shaped why I'm an organizer today.
