Shirley Chisholm (Shirley Anita Chisholm) Quotes
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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At some point, you're going to have to be willing to take a punch for your team. If your employees or your teammates will see that you're willing to do that, they are more likely to be loyal to you, and your team is more likely to function better.
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Here's what I have at my advantage: I've never been a personality. I've always been a character actor.
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There's always the ongoing actor frustration of finding the great role to do next. I don't go to work a lot. I wait as long as I can until the money runs out or a great part comes along.
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Fall into your sentences; enjoy writing them. Love the world you are creating.
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The biggest part of my fashion choices is how comfortable it is.
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
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No one can control the aging process or the trajectory of illness.
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I come from a pretty strange family.
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Humor is a part of spirituality.
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And I love the twist. I love to fool you once, I love to fool you twice, and on the very last page, quite often - very last paragraph sometimes - I like to just play with your perception one more time in a way that makes everything that came before just a little bit different.
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As a writer, you should care about reluctant readers. You want these kids to feel like books are amazing and cool and that they're an escape.
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I know great songwriters. Fred Neil would come up when he was in L.A., we all used to hang out. He would sit there and sing, and we would just melt. I mean, we would go to his recording sessions.
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We are the hollow menWe are the stuffed menLeaning togetherHeadpiece filled with straw.
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There is now less flogging in our great schools than formerly, but then less is learned there; so that what the boys get at one end they lose at the other.
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We've all heard it: vegans are cool and plant-based dining is hot. What other diet can promise to keep you trim without working at it, clear clogged arteries, save the lives of animals, and do more to stem climate change than driving a Prius-or not driving at all?
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A lot of sexual harassment stuff in the news, and I couldn't help but notice a very disturbing pattern emerging, which is that many of the predators, not all, but many of them are Jews
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Desirelessness towards the seen and the unseen gives the consciousness of mastery.
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You do get into a groove, which is great, when you get to act with the same people a lot. Like with Caroline Catz - it's like a duet: you're like a duo jamming together.
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I love interaction with audiences. If were my choice, I would spend most of my time interacting with audiences. Walking around and asking them to challenge me.
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I'm always a little starstruck anyway. So to work with a movie star, which is Brad, I was excited about that; to work with a movie legend, which is Tony, I wouldn't have passed that up. Just to get to watch him and watch how he works.
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I was a weird kid. It wasn't until I saw 'Aguirre: The Wrath of God' at 16 that my whole world changed. The obsession with that was equal to the obsession with writing.
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Service is the rent that you pay for room on this earth.
