Hattie McDaniel Quotes
In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book...
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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As human beings, we all have reasons for our behavior. There may be people who have certain physiological issues that dictate why they make certain choices. On the whole, though, I think we're dictated by our structure, our past, our environment, our culture. So once you understand the patterns that shape a person, how can you not find sympathy?
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I'm called a terrorist in the Arab media still today.
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The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.
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I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don't get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.
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If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.
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At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
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I'm Pisces with Leo rising. The Pisces part is the dreamer. The Leo says, 'Let's execute.'
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I grew up in Oakland and Berkeley, California.
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A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.
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Markets as well as mobs respond to human emotions; markets as well as mobs can be inflamed to their own destruction.
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I always wanted to be an actor.
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I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.
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I wrote my first books when I was single and then I got married and then had a kid and there were different things happening in my life.
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I have routines but not superstitions.
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There are pretty girls all over the place. But there are still a lot of people standing strong, doing their thing in loving relationships, actually staying true. I wanted to write an honest love song from that point of view.
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For me, the first thing I fell madly in love with when I was little, was, Gilda Radner had this live performance that she had done at the Met that was on tape, and I could rent it from Video Video in New Jersey where I lived, and so I literally would rent it every two weeks.
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Nothing is more beautiful than to know all.
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In playing the part of Mammy, I tried to make her a living, breathing character, the way she appeared to me in the book...
