Sterling K. Brown (Sterling Kelby Brown) Quotes
The most fundamental important thing for me as an actor is maintaining a sense of play. It's so important.

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San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.
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Well, I was a big fan of the book and therein a huge fan of the girl Precious. And so I felt like I knew this girl. I felt like I'd grown up alongside her. I felt like she was in my family. She was my friend and she was like people I didn't want to be friends with.
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I have to protect my family and have a life with them that is completely private.
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Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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I have two tutors - a maths tutor and another tutor who does all the other subjects. It is part of the deal with myself; I really want to finish school. I like learning and education, and I think it is really important.
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Exercise, from a public health perspective, is an unmitigated failure. The world's longest-lived people live in environments that nudge them into more movement. They don't use power tools, they do their own yard work, they grow a garden.
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Over the years, I've learnt from co-actors, directors, technicians, and even from junior artists.
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When I travel with my kids abroad, I am not myself, but I'm more a father who wants to protect them. Sometimes, I am even aggressive about certain things and get surprised seeing myself like that: for instance, when people want to take pictures of them. I am fine if they want to take my pictures, but they are not public property.
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A well-designed 401(k) plan is an enormous competitive edge when recruiting and retaining employees.
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When other boys dreamt of going to the moon or becoming doctors, I wanted to be a designer.
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Social Security is the only thing most Americans can count on to keep them out of poverty during retirement.
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I've gotten to learn what's important in life and what's not important, and what to spend energy on and what not to. I don't have a family like some of my teammates, but I have a lot of things pulling at me that I have to put my energy into.
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I'm a firm believer that in the theory that people only do their best at things they truly enjoy. It is difficult to excel at something you don't enjoy.
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They love putting me in the 'indie queen' box. I had some high standards in my 20s that I don't have anymore.
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Until 45 I can play a woman in love. After 55 I can play grandmothers. But between those ten years, it is difficult for an actress.
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In the South, we tell stories. We tell stories if you're in a sales position, if you're in a retail position, you lure your customer by telling a story. You just do.
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I never have time to have a dinner. I have to eat while I'm memorizing lines. The only way to maintain energy is to eat all day long. I must eat all day long.
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I had written a tune called 'Shake, Rattle and Roll,' but the white stations refused to play it - they thought it was low-class black music. We thought what we needed was a new name. But a white disc jockey named Alan Freed laid on it, and he thought up the name 'rock n' roll.'
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I think people who have good parents come into the world with a strength, yes, and an advantage.
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Cooperation on the international level could help to solve the problem of sources of sharp capital flow volatility and its consequences.
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In the 360-degree battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, women have served honorably and fought valiantly. Yet there is a key difference between being in harm's way and reacting to enemy contact, and being in a direct combat operations role day in and day out. They are different scenarios that require different standards.
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I think that the issue here is a fundamental fairness in having a hearing so that these issues can be explored and concerns can be raised.
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The most fundamental important thing for me as an actor is maintaining a sense of play. It's so important.