Dal LaMagna Quotes
Marsha Coleman-Adebayo clearly and engagingly tells us Americans a truth that we might not want to hear but should.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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The character I play is a wonderful compilation of things I hate about myself and things I love about myself and things that I've invented to make her even more interesting than me.
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I'm always happy when I hear about people selling records or selling books or selling movies. It makes me proud of them.
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Sesame oil is probably my favorite condiment, period.
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I've had the experience of having a book praised but then it doesn't sell. Or not praised but then it sells.
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We don't know all the answers. If we knew all the answers we'd be bored, wouldn't we? We keep looking, searching, trying to get more knowledge.
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Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
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There's competition at every phase of your life. The day we start thinking about it, you lose your peace of mind. I don't compete with anyone.
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Derivatives are financial weapons of mass destruction.
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I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
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After all those years in Asia, I don't have to do promotion anymore. We just release a Jackie Chan movie and - Boom! - people go.
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Los Angeles can be a really sad city.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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In my next life, I want to be a housecat. Naps all the time!
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My mom has always been my support system. She taught me to never give up and to keep pursuing my passions no matter what.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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The one snack I really love is YoCrunch yogurt. It's like an apple pie in a cup! You have your apples on the bottom, your yogurt in the middle, and piecrust crumbs on top.
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'King Lear,' I've been seeing all my life. I mean, the great actors of my lifetime... to join their company, as it were, by playing a part that's challenged them, is one of the great joys of being an actor who does the classics.
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Every parent craves for a child, and once their wishes come true, they feel that it's not possible for them to love anyone more that the first born. But the fact is, after you have the second issue, the feeling is, how can I not love the kid?
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The man who is always talking about being a gentleman, never is one.
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I'm used to promoting books, but a movie is a very different thing. You have to go to film festivals and wear fancy clothes and try and look glamorous and intelligent when you're just terrified and you want to go home!
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One of the pitfalls of writing about illness is that it is very easy to imagine people with cancer as either these wise, beyond-their-years creatures or else these sad-eyed, tragic people. And the truth is people living with cancer are very much like people who are not living with cancer.
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Every fellow is really two men -- what he is and what he might be; and you're never absolutely sure which you're going to bury till he's dead.
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Marsha Coleman-Adebayo clearly and engagingly tells us Americans a truth that we might not want to hear but should.
