Hattie McDaniel Quotes
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I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
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I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.
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I had written lyrics to a song called The Silent Extreme, which Alex later renamed Humans Being.
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A lot of what I was wanting to do in my work and what I have been doing has been about the unexpected... that unexpected situation of wanting to be the heroine and yet wanting to kill the heroine at the same time.
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'Salam aleikum.'
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I valued my independence from an early age and was always something of a individualist … Well, a show-off anyway.
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We do a hard fantasy as well as hard science fiction, and I think I probably single-handedly recreated military science fiction. It was dead before I started working in it.
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If I just wear something because I feel like myself and I'm comfortable, that's okay - and that goes even for more edgy things. But if I try too much, or if I even try, it doesn't work. It doesn't feel natural, and I feel very uncomfortable.
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I need boundaries. In the modern studio there are a bunch of instruments around me, and I can simulate anything I can't play, so sometimes the palette feels too big.
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If one day I came to Ligue 1, it would be to Lyon or Marseille.
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I think there are always phases in life when things get intense or difficult, whether it's the sheer volume of work or personal circumstances. And I've definitely had tough moments. The way I approach them is just to tell myself that this, too, will pass, and take it one day at a time.
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The one thing I witnessed over and over were these pretty young people who would throw themselves into a cause larger than themselves and believe they could change the world.
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If you write a book that's as powerful and successful as 'Bastard,' there's a strong desire to prove there's something else.
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Hip-hop reflects the truth, and the problem is that hip-hop exposes a lot of the negative truth that society tries to conceal. It's a platform where we could offer information, but it's also an escape.
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What I love about the theatre is that it's always metaphorical. It's like going back to being a kid again, and we're all pretending in a room. Sometimes, when the pretending really works, I find it much, much more moving than something on film.
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Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.
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I started taking acting classes when I was twelve.
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I'm not someone who thinks Republicans are always wrong and Democrats are always right.
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Who are you and what medications aren’t you taking?
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Proper business planning demands that you focus on the self-interest of the customer at all times.
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It is clear that IDEA '97 not only undermines the educational process, it also undermines the authority of educators.
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[My mother] was taking me to Shakespeare In The Park when I was like 6. There was just a lot of theater-going and a lot of movie-going and a lot of discussion about it afterwards, dissecting it and stuff.
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A woman's gifts will make room for her.
