Maryann Simko (Taisha Abelar) Quotes
Only a minute to minute relentless struggle can balance one's natural but stupefying insistence to remain unchanged.
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To be honest, I think, for me, the power is always with art. The art world clearly couldn't happen without art.
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We constantly abuse and defend a woman's prerogative to change her mind.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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I went to Japan and I lived there. I lived in Mexico for a year. I went to Europe. I lived in Canada.
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I love people, and the hustle.
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The whites come to applaud a Negro performer just like the colored do. When you've got the respect of white and colored, you can ease a lot of things.
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I had an amazing childhood.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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I just want to play for Hindus and Muslims that sit together. That's all I want to do.
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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I love being in a courtroom.
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Spike Lee gave me the greatest reaction to the fact that I was this athlete-meets-artist, because I think he saw that I was different. I learned that oftentimes, Spike directs in a sense that he might just stare at you and look at you in a telepathic way of communicating.
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I actually felt like I was starting a new career as a news reporter while playing in 'Pinocchio.'
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You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.
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We always push the boundaries on the styles we put on a record.
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A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!
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You don't make a fortune doing cartoons. It's a lot of fun, it keeps you busy, and it's better than a kick in the pants, absolutely. But doing voiceover work doesn't make you rich. It just doesn't.
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When there were cases of Ebola in the States, I respected that people wanted to address concerns and take some sort of action, but the focus turned completely to the U.S. At one point, we started to wonder, Where is the Ebola epidemic happening? The States - or West Africa?
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There is no disillusionment about India as far as I am concerned. There could never come a time when I would get disillusioned with my own country.
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Is the prisoner a prisoner because he lives in a cage or because he knows that he lives in a cage?
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The ultimate embodiment of Bruce Wayne. He has exactly the balance of darkness and light that we were looking for.
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Only a minute to minute relentless struggle can balance one's natural but stupefying insistence to remain unchanged.
