Byron Allen Quotes
Al Sharpton is not important. He's nothing more than a black pawn in a very sophisticated white economic chess game.
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People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
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The years go so fast. I mean, I just realized that at the end of the year I will be twenty-two, and I just turned twenty-one.
Nastassja Kinski -
An efficient government is dangerous in the hands of the wrong man. Sadly, the right sort of man never seems interested in the job.
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Medicine, anything academic, is a very Persian Iranian route to take in life, in one's career.
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My first job ever was on 'Peak Practice.' I just had to walk up the stairs. They kept the take where I slipped slightly, which was annoying.
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People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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I've never been in a place where winning has hurt the ability to do anything.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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Sometimes, especially when it's cold, I get dry skin, so I scratch a lot. I scratch my arms incessantly.
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I have a degree in European history, which didn't necessarily have any direct impact on my career, but I'm grateful I studied something other than acting in college.
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Christianity is a battle not a dream.
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My wife and I have very deep roots in Colorado, and we can't see ourselves living anywhere else.
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I grew up in New York.
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You know, Motorcycle Diaries has no incredible stories, no sudden plot twists, it doesn't play that way. It's about recognizing that instance of change and embracing it.
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I simply haven't the nerve to imagine a being, a force, a cause which keeps the planets revolving in their orbits and then suddenly stops in order to give me a bicycle with three speeds.
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Acting's boring.
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When people say I have become a celebrity, I remind them of fame's flip side. For instance, if I want to watch a movie in a cinema, I have to enter through a side exit just before the film begins and leave by the same exit before the credits roll.
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One's art goes as far and as deep as one's love goes.
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Rather than a teaching tool, I think a novel is more of a witnessing entity. A witnessing entity? What is that? I just want the reader to step in and experience it as a story.
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We black women are the single group in the West intact. And anybody can see we're pretty shaky. We are, however (all praises), the only group that derives its identity from itself.
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My career, I think, indicates I'm not afraid of anything.
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Al Sharpton is not important. He's nothing more than a black pawn in a very sophisticated white economic chess game.
