C. Vivian Stringer Quotes
I don't know who came up with this rivalry business. I have enough sense to know a rivalry is when you can't determine the outcome.
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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The first book I sat down to write was an historical romance. It was really bad and thankfully no one ever saw it.
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There seem to be many causes of depression. One cause is profound loss, grief. Economic hardship we know is linked to depression. We don't have a full picture.
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I resent ever being stereotyped.
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I used to be so self-conscious about my braces that people thought I was shy - I just never talked. It took me a long time to realize, whatever, it's not like I'll have them forever, so I might as well enjoy it while I do!
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
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Experimental science is fascinating, but I don't want to do it. I want other people to do it, and I'll read about it.
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Ordinarily if an actor gets chosen for the lead in a film, he or she has already built up a repertoire, and everyone knows what he or she is capable of.
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Our research is so complex that the resources of a single region of the world are no longer enough - both intellectually and economically, it must be a global effort.
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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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I'm a runner first before anything else.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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Back home, almost everything I did, I did in Hebrew. I went to drama school in Hebrew, my whole career was in Hebrew, and to switch languages was something that was fascinating and more complicated than I expected it to be, even though I've been speaking English since I could speak.
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I can't do chapped lips. If your lips are jacked up, Aquaphor is always a good go-to.
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If you look over the course of a hundred years, I think the gradual erosion of the consensus that's held our country together is probably more serious than a few bearded terrorists who fly into buildings.
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Successful givers secure their oxygen masks before coming to the assistance of others. Although their motives may be less purely altruistic, their actions prove more altruistic, because they give more.
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That's the best thing that classic can do, is it can return to us from our own past to give us lessons about the future, and it can give us a sense of both who we were and who we could become.
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If I'm a racist, why is one of the top civil rights activists of the 1960s asking me to be a centerpiece of the MLK dinner. Why am I the only one who has the guts to stand up to this Democrat Media Complex that insists that black people must exist on the Democrat plantation.
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I don't even have an agent or manager, but rather have a number of associates who I turn to when needed; or conversely when they hear of someone looking for me they'll contact me.
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Some politicians were probably too lax about the rise of an extremist, fundamentalist, radical ideology.
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As a songwriter, you always look for guys that you can write good with. Show up, have an idea, knock it out of the park.
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I don't know who came up with this rivalry business. I have enough sense to know a rivalry is when you can't determine the outcome.
