M. K. Asante Quotes
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I talk every day about doing the right thing.
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I never blamed Pinochet, or my torturers, or external circumstances.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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This life and this job and this position that I'm put in, it forces you to grow up quick. I definitely got dropped in the deep end.
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When I was a kid growing up, I always thought I would be a journalist, and I thought, you know, I'd cover stories about other people, and we're always taught never to make the story about yourself.
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But as long as you're creating the art you want to create, if people start liking you, you shouldn't have to apologize. You want your stuff to be heard by as many people as possible.
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The Law of Triviality... briefly stated, it means that the time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
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I don't run after successful directors. I give importance to the content of the film.
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I don't like to post fresh standup material, because I want to use it in a special. The stuff I like to post online I like to be off-the-cuff moments.
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I would say to an actor new to the business that it's best to go where you are most comfortable as a person, both in and outside of the business.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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When I cook a meal, I like to serve things one by one and keep them separate. I get that from my father - he's such a purist. Some people even put their desserts on the main plate. It's just wrong.
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I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind.
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I come from a dysfunctional family, so my views of parents and parenting used to be highly mixed.
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As President, I will end once and for all the use of taxpayer funds to promote the National Endowment for the Arts and other programs that subsidize amoral and degrading activities.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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It costs more money to put a person on death row than it does to lock them up for the rest of their lives because of attorney fees.
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The child in you, like all children, loves to laugh, to be around people who can laugh at themselves and life. Children instinctively know that the more laughter we have in our lives, the better.
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Democracy cannot consist solely of elections that are nearly always fictitious and managed by rich landowners and professional politicians.
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I grew up in Albany Park in Chicago and then went to Lake View High School.
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I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does.
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Writing on a computer feels like a recipe for writer's block. I can type so fast that I run out of thoughts, and then I sit there and look at the words on the screen, and move them around, and never get anywhere. Whereas in a notebook I just keep plodding along, slowly, accumulating sentences, sometimes even surprising myself.
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I write-down to speak-up.
