Kage Baker Quotes
If you want to see what stage comedians did to get laffs a century ago, watch the 1910 'Wizard of Oz.' I hope you have a high tolerance for pratfalls.
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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
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I come from the liberal side of thinking: Better one guilty man should walk free than one innocent man found guilty.
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I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
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Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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I haven't only been offered Hasidic roles.
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I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.
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We all understand it's a privilege just to be playing in this league.
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Communities don't think, don't believe, don't want, don't have needs, don't have interests and don't make decisions. Only individuals have minds that generate desires and needs - and only individuals can make choices and decisions.
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I always had a very strong sense of independence. I really liked being able to buy my Alanis Morissette 'Jagged Little Pill' album. I wore that as a badge of honor. I love not having to rely on anyone.
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The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.
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No person is just one particular emotion.
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The blockchain does one thing: It replaces third-party trust with mathematical proof that something happened.
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Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
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If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
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We are on pace this year to have a trade deficit that is larger than $800 billion. We have never faced that before, but we continue to put forward trade agreements like these that leave us naked to competition that is neither free nor fair.
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Since I'm a vegetarian, I try to focus on getting my protein and iron needs met.
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What the Danes left in Ireland were hens and weasels. And when the cock crows in the morning, the country people will always say 'It is for Denmark they are crowing. Crowing they are to be back in Denmark.'
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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'Pretty Deadly' is the story of these immortal and mortal characters, and the mortals' story follows Sarah's family, a black family, through the ages. I never made the choice of, 'Oh, this is gonna be the story of an African American family!'
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If you want to see what stage comedians did to get laffs a century ago, watch the 1910 'Wizard of Oz.' I hope you have a high tolerance for pratfalls.
