R. L. Stine Quotes
You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary.
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If I get involved in a charity, I really want to be a part of it. I don't want to just put my name on your pamphlet.
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Stereotypes lose their power when the world is found to be more complex than the stereotype would suggest. When we learn that individuals do not fit the group stereotype, then it begins to fall apart.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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For any actor - not just talking about myself - but if you've been fortunate enough to work for a long period of time, there's going to be different choices you're going to make.
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For me, whenever I would see a lot of 'black films,' I didn't feel represented in it. I didn't feel connected to the characters or the situations or the humor.
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I still audition a lot and work really hard to get work. So I don't really walk around feeling like I've made it. My short term goals are really just to be creatively stimulated and to be excited about material I might be working on.
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He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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It is not from ourselves that we learn to be better than we are.
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I started off thinking that I just needed one shot to prove myself, but then I realised that I was only going to learn about acting by doing it.
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My experience in Iraq made me realize, and during the recovery, that I could have died. And I just had to do more with my life.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
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No one in my family wrote. And there was no real introduction. I suppose I somehow blundered into it when I was about six or seven years old. I was asked what present I would like, and, without knowing why, I responded that I would like a journal. It was a beautiful journal - so beautiful that I didn't want to sully it.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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Animation is tremendously resilient. Animation will recover, as art always recovers. There's always cycles of good art.
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The presumption of innocence, the benefit of the doubt, walking without worrying - these should not be hallmarks of white privilege. They are human rights - human rights - that should be enjoyed by all.
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I was in favour of the death penalty, and disposed to regard abolitionists as people whose hearts were bigger than their heads. Four years of close study of the subject gradually dispelled that feeling. In the end I became convinced that the abolitionists were right in their conclusions...and that far from the sentimental approach leading into their camp and the rational one into that of the supporters, it was the other way about.
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We are the rebels asking for the storm, and believing that truth is only to be found in an endless search. If the 'World Spirit' touches you, do not expect that it will be painless.
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I wake up, eat, make a beat. Play Xbox, make another beat and go to bed. Occasionally do something. I rarely party.
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I think it is time for a radical federalism in this country, where people trust innovation coming from the local level and ramp that up.
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You have no control [over natural disaster]. That's what's scary about it. You're helpless. That feeling of helplessness is really scary.
