Dabbs Greer Quotes
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Growing up, my birthday was always Confederate Memorial Day. It helped to create this profound sense of awareness about the Civil War and the 100 years between the Civil War and the civil rights movement and my parents' then-illegal and interracial marriage.
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I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone.
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Every child needs to have for itself not only its loving parents and siblings and friends of its own age, but a grown-up friend.
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While you are improvising, you need to be prepared, and I like to have a sense of who the character is, what she likes to read, where she grew up, where we went to school, and what she has for breakfast, so that when I go to set, I'm free to explore.
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
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The more I read about feeding times, sleep times and waking-up times, the more inadequate and miserable I felt.
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Let the tech firms and consulting firms build your skills, but be sure to ask yourself, 'Am I maximizing my impact?' 'Am I living up to my values?'
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I eat whatever I want, junk food included.
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So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.
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I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.
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I've been dancing since the age of two. I don't really remember it, because I was little, but my mom signed me up and would put me in cute costumes. A lot of little girls get into dancing, but I loved it so much that I kept doing it.
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I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.
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But I honestly don't read critics. My dad reads absolutely everything ever written about me. He calls me up to read ecstatic reviews, but I always insist that I can't hear them. If you give value to the good reviews, you have to give value to the criticism.
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I grew up being scared of the water, which is embarrassing to say as an Australian, but it's true.
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A lot of people forget how important it is to be creative. We get caught up in getting ahead and in day-to-day minutiae. But creativity is a fundamental mode of expression, as is being tenacious and standing by your own convictions and passions, even if it's not the 'popular' choice.
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It is true that some people are interested in the buying part of things... They want to buy everything from the movie reviews to the media net to the opinions and so on.
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I grew up with artists and drag queens. These were just my neighbors and friends and the people who are raising me.
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Some actors get fired up by the sound of the audience. I just want to retreat.
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What else does anyone have except for a collection of slightly painful memories?
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I have a huge appreciation for music in general, but my roots are country.
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When it's time to film and to actually take on the role of Precious, I felt an immense responsibility to do it justice.
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For me, acting has often been solitary. You're all together, and then boom, you're gone.
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One time, on Marine One, the president asked me my opinion. I had a flashback to being at the kitchen table with my dad. That dominant male figure set me up for being confident to express myself with precision and persuasion.
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I guess sometimes the past just catches up to you, whether you want it to or not.
