P. M. Forni Quotes
If we are kind and considerate, people will want to be around us, and we benefit from enduring circles of attention and care.
Quotes to Explore
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I live in Derry, a little town in Ireland, and I don't have the background of Hollywood or Broadway.
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Don't let nobody tell you that you can't do it. Love what you do until you don't love it anymore. Nothing's impossible.
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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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Drama school introduced me to a world I had no idea about. I wasn't brought up in a literary household at all.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
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Whatever we do from government, we need to do what's best for America. If we do that, that's bringing power back to the people.
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Our goal is to build this up as a knowledge base that anyone can look at. We're not just interested in people answering their friends' one-off questions.
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Yes, politics IS war without bloodshed; and war is an extension of those politics.
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How do you create chemistry? If only I knew that! Some people say it's a natural thing that you have with someone, and maybe it is to do with that, but I think you can work on it.
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Like most writers, I've read a lot of Hemingway, and I admire him greatly.
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I know that for me, a lot of people will look at me and they'll think 'Somali' or 'outsider' instead of 'Minnesota.'
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My choosing Islam was not a political statement; it was a spiritual statement.
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I like somebody who's not so crazy but likes to have a good time... and who is thoughtful and kind and easy to laugh with. Somebody you can just be yourself with one hundred and fifty percent.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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Well, an actor is an actor is actor, to paraphrase someone or other and the opportunity to work, to have a steady engagement, certainly seemed like an appealing concept to me.
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I've been in movies with Meryl Streep, Jack Nicholson - but I was on 'The Simpsons,' and finally, in the eyes of my children, I was a star.
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Corporations cannot commit treason, or be outlawed or excommunicated, for they have no souls.
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Usually my writing is very over the top and bombastic and very, like, 'I'm amazing! Look at me!'
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I like talking. I like acting.
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If people ridicule you, look them in the eye and say, 'Yeah, I may have failed, but at least I tried,' and get on with it.
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I should call people back more readily. I'm not the best friend sometimes in terms of that. I do follow that white balloon and get distracted a lot.
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If we are kind and considerate, people will want to be around us, and we benefit from enduring circles of attention and care.
