Patrisse Cullors Quotes
Black Lives Matter has become what black communities all over the world have needed it to become. At times, it is a hashtag; at other moments, it is a declaration, a cry of rage, a sharing of light. It has become a movement that is international, worldwide in its scope of liberation for black and oppressed people everywhere.
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The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.
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I'm not likely to forget where I've been and what I've done and learned. I think it's just as important to play new instruments as to play new pieces. The old ones are getting scarcer and the new ones more and more wonderful.
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Medicine, you see, is my first love; whether I write fiction or nonfiction, and even when it has nothing to do with medicine, it's still about medicine. After all, what is medicine but life plus? So I write about life.
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I'll always be back to the stage. I have no doubt that the stage will always call me back. There will always be a character that no one else can play, and I'll be back to play it.
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I like being friends with other women who are supportive of women. I think that is important.
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Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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If I'm gonna write songs about my exes, they can write songs about me. That's how it works.
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Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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I had this maroon 'Lion King' tracksuit that my mum couldn't take off me. I wore it until the sleeves ended at my elbows and the trousers ended at my knees.
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I think the key to a great romcom is to not fight against the genre. The trend more recently has been to apologise or be snarky, so it's an anti-romcom. Just lean in and embrace the fact it's a love story, and it's funny, and it's light. It can still be uber-smart and deal with zeitgeist issues.
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When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
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It's weird, because the ideas in my songs aren't controversial to me. I feel like I should be able to sing about anything.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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When I was a kid, I wanted to be a baseball player.
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Anyone can have bad sets. I saw one guy who I really love - I won't mention his name - gave a set that was really bad. And then one month later did the exact same set on our show and it was great.
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Well, my life is so centered around the people I care about, my animals, and my work.
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I like eggs. My favorite way of cooking eggs is old school French.
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I would be writing an essay that was due in the next day until about 1 A.M., and then I would be up at 6 A.M. and on a train to Birmingham to record 'The Archers'. It was pretty intense.
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Black Lives Matter has become what black communities all over the world have needed it to become. At times, it is a hashtag; at other moments, it is a declaration, a cry of rage, a sharing of light. It has become a movement that is international, worldwide in its scope of liberation for black and oppressed people everywhere.
