Euzhan Palcy Quotes
I wanted to make a black story about South Africa. Unfortunately, no producer in the United States would put one penny into a black story.
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I'm really enjoying living in Los Angeles. It's a great city to live in. I'm living a very suburban domesticated lifestyle out there - a two bedroomed little bungalow with two cars, and we're just driving around, going to meetings here and there - it's lovely!
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I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.
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I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.
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I often felt that I didn't train and race enough team sprint to get it right. You need to know that you've got a place to have that continuity of results. Am I in? Am I out of this one? That's tough.
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The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.
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I usually have eight to 10 meetings a day and travel 150 days a year..._It sounds crazy, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
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Respect for women was a very important part of my upbringing.
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I'm on Twitter, but I'm not super active. I follow a lot of the same people that a lot of people follow: Rob Delaney, Megan Amram, Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, people I've worked with.
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I was surrounded by sisters. My childhood was all women.
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I love books.
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Then after I saw the scoreboard that we were tied, I was really happy, because I really wanted to win.
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That's what we're striving for, making us a contender in every race.
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I want to be in a position where I can function as a human being.
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My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.
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Veterans Day is a time to celebrate the men and women who have worn this nation's uniform and to honor their service.
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I've grown up with a piano in the house, and that's where I started to be able to learn things by ear. Guitar kind of happened, and I was using it just for writing at first. Then, I was writing so much that I began to realise that I knew how to play, and that's when I started getting nerdy about it.
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Everybody can make a choice to be more positive. It's about who you hang around and what you choose to watch on TV. What environment you put yourself in. It's easy to get a negative internal dialogue. You have to be aware of what's playing in your mind.
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I've made so many changes to my records because of the way the audience has reacted at the various festivals I've played - I've taken tracks back into the studio, stripped them bare, and built them back up again to create something entirely different.
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Well, for me as a heterosexual man, the woman is still the mystery of life.
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I can't understand artists that don't want to perform and, like, get on stage and do their songs for all their fans every night.
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One of the interesting things about being in public life is there are constantly these pressures being placed on you from different sides. To be effective, you have to be able to listen to a variety of points of view, synthesize viewpoints.
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When there's trouble I don't like running, but I'm afraid I got more in common with who I was, than who I am becoming
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I wanted to make a black story about South Africa. Unfortunately, no producer in the United States would put one penny into a black story.
