Esther Rolle Quotes
I don't play Hollywood maids, the hee-hee kind of people who are so in love with their madam's children they have no time for their own.
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History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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We seem, as a culture, to start to adhere to these antiheroes and have grown tired of the traditional, straight-up-and-down good guy.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
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I have an extended family of close friends, guy and girls.
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My favorite soundtrack is 'Avatar.' It's the best thing in the world. I love it.
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I remember being inspired myself when smaller films, whether it's 'Beasts' or 'Winter's Bone,' wound up in the Oscars lineup.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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I've been lucky because Hollywood can be harsh and try to pigeonhole you. I've done TV, films, and comedy, done it all... I think I'm spread out evenly among the film community. I've been lucky and keep working with great actors.
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Some of the most radical work is being done in the most commercially pop venues, and some of the most boring work is being done in avant-garde territory.
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Our music has been an incredible gift to help us make a difference.
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What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book - a key part of our planet's cultural legacy.
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My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Poor privileged white men. Their stranglehold on power is slowly being loosened.
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For me, there is no day or night for music. I often work through the night - without phone calls disturbing me.
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Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.
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I'll keep going till my face falls off.
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My friends tell me I'm the most boring celebrity they know! A typical night for me is at home in California or watching movies in my pyjamas.
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I did not choose solitude. Who would? It came on me like a kind of vocation, demanding an effort that married women can't picture.
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There may be a certain amount of pleasurable excitement in running up to the top of a hillock in the hope of seeing your ball near the flag, but this kind of thing one gets tired of as one grows older.
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I don't play Hollywood maids, the hee-hee kind of people who are so in love with their madam's children they have no time for their own.
