Judith Flanders Quotes
There are supposed to be endorphins or whatever that make you feel great when you exercise. I don't think I have any, because I only feel great when I'm lying on the sofa reading a book, possibly while simultaneously eating biscuits.
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I'd love to see more middle and high school teachers who are not teaching English develop classroom libraries. Our message to kids should be that reading is for everyone.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, you should always buy something to treat yourself to say well done for getting the job! However I've not followed on that through yet... I've always wanted a tattoo, something to mark my experience.
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
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For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not.
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As a child in the rural district of Penal I remember sharing meals from the same pot with neighbours of different racial, ethnic, social and economic backgrounds.
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I'm being driven crazy by people who are obsessed with limiting the scope of government, but feel perfectly free to demand that government get involved in women's most personal choices.
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I realized that acting isn't necessarily what I love, but it's what I do. But I really do love filmmaking.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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I sleep better on the road than I do at home. I'm used to sleeping in a million different hotels. I'm not home very often, so when I get home, I have things I want to do.
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The best advice my dad ever gave me is that acting is believing. Acting is not acting. It isn't putting on a face and dancing around in a mask. It's believing that you are that character and playing him as if it were a normal day in the life of that character.
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I do love getting dressed up, but sometimes it's glam and edgy mixed together.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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If a country forgets where it came from, how will its people know who they are?
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I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.
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Social intercourse, even friendship among most people, is a merely a business arrangement that lasts only so long as there is need.
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Personally, I think universities are finished. So much rubbish gets taught.
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You look at science fiction and look how often it talks about being alien, being alienated about the other. Look at the number of blue people - 'Avatar,' I'm looking at you. And it is now easier to find people of color in science-fiction literature and media, but the issues of representation are still really, really troubling.
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It is very difficult to get legislation passed. But then the danger always is that you have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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There are supposed to be endorphins or whatever that make you feel great when you exercise. I don't think I have any, because I only feel great when I'm lying on the sofa reading a book, possibly while simultaneously eating biscuits.
