Melissa de la Cruz Quotes
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God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.
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Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.
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Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.
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I was a good decathlete until I got with a coach that really knew how to train specifically for the event... I'd really describe it as like being a juggler; you have ten balls and you're trying to get them all in the air at the same time.
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The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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I'd love to work with Kanye West. He's gone through a lot of stuff in the public eye, but his music is genius. He always takes risks.
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As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.
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Embrace your weirdness!
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Hollywood panders to the 18-to-34 crowd. That demographic doesn't care about race and the package it comes in. They care about the hottest chick. They just like hot chicks.
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Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
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Businessmen need to understand the challenges of society and contribute to solving them.
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I either delegate something, I dump it, or I deal with it.
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We've played in places where there were more of us onstage than in the audience.
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I never thought I would see a free South Sudan.
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I go through phases of watching a ton of dance/performance, and I am bizarrely well-informed on the subject.
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Part of me wonders what it would have been like to have had my first experience of India in a normal way, rather than through the eyes of a film.
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I was only in one play at Steppenwolf, in the early days.
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It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry 'I could have thought of that' is a very popular and misleading one, for the fact is that they didn't, and a very significant and revealing fact it is too.
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As someone who has been wrong often, I can tell you one thing for sure: hindsight reminds you of your follies every day.
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I guess I'm just the kind of person who likes to do it all. It's fun to put on the writer's hat and go hide by myself with my computer for six months. Then it's fun to come out and put the director hat on and deal with all the things that a director deals with. Then it's fun to just be the producer and, um, not do anything.
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It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela.
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Tim O'Brien's book about Vietnam, 'The Things They Carried', has won every award, is studied in college and is considered to be definitive. But it's fiction.
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This is college?' Schyler asked. 'or Downton Abbey?
