Michael Eric Dyson Quotes
I do believe that it is quite necessary for us as a people to reach back, over and down to help the less fortunate of our number.
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I have learned to be patient.
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I had cottage cheese for lunch and a glass of wine when I got home tonight.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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There's nothing that's in an actor's control. I've learned at this point you do things and you let them go. There's no way to control the outcome. The only thing I have any sort of reign over is my own experience.
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National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like, the first obey a mob, always demented and the second a king, generally sane.
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The girl-next-door image is a sort of joke; for years, I couldn't get any roles other than as somebody dark.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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What makes Ireland inclined toward the drama is that it's a great country for conversation.
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I found the happiest woman in America is between 50 and 55, is happily married, has made significant progress in her career, and lives in a community where she can easily exercise outside. But the most important single thing was she had her last child before she was 35.
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Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd are really amazing, lovely people and really great comedic actors.
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I still use the guitar pretty much just to hide my gut.
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Yeah, I like to have fun - I think that's a good way to live. I think you're better at your job if you like it.
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It's difficult losing, but it's even more difficult when you didn't make a shot. I could see the ball just didn't go your way on an out-of-bounds play or something like that, but when you're just not making them, it's frustrating.
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I don't think about records.
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I grew up in a very Catholic family. Up until puberty, I would go to a Catholic church every week.
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The artist deals in what cannot be said in words. The artist whose medium is fiction does this in words. The novelist says in words what cannot be said in words.
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If what you create does not outlive you, then you have failed.
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I think one of the reasons that I got so good at it, as somebody making radio stories, is that on the radio I can actually - I can understand what's happening in the interview and can make a connection in a way that makes sense.
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No people are uninteresting.Their fate is like the chronicle of planets.Nothing in them is not particular,and planet is dissimilar from planet.
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Everybody is bound by some social rules. But I think that artists need some kind of freedom to explore their minds and that some of them tend to take that freedom to live a little more openly or a little more dangerously, sometimes a lot more self-destructively, than other people.
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I like buying clothes, especially as I get a tax-deductible allowance.
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I have this prominent feature on my face - I don't know if you've noticed - but, well, they're my lips. They tend to walk into a room before I do because they're larger than average! So Chapstick's a big one for me.
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Our enemies are also seeking the abilities to sabotage our power grid, our financial institutions, our air traffic control systems.
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I do believe that it is quite necessary for us as a people to reach back, over and down to help the less fortunate of our number.
