Amber Giles (Mija) Quotes
I don't think that I've ever really been interested in many other things aside from music and making art in general.
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Frankly, we actresses are so much in a hurry. We feel we have very few years to shine in our career, so we neglect our personal life. But for me, both aspects are equally important. I don't want to grow old and have regrets.
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In the Constitution of the United States, Negroes are referred to as fellows although the word 'slave' is carefully avoided before the thirteenth amendment.
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I never really did any disco dancing.
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Black women, whose experience is unique, are seldom recognized as a particular social-cultural entity and are seldom thought to be important enough for serious scholarly consideration.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
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It would be curious to discover who it is to whom one writes in a diary. Possibly to some mysterious personification of one's own identity.
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I suppose being quite young and being thrust quite dramatically into a large public arena skewered my vision of what it means to live and be a part of something.
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When I finally decided to do the show, I only had two weeks to learn the choreography and the songs in French.
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There is a certain aesthetic pleasure in trying to imagine the unimaginable and failing, if you are a reader.
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For members of the Democratic Party, and progressives all over the world, it is difficult to overstate or hyperbolize the despair and dread that has descended upon them in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump.
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I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.
Nastassja Kinski
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Parents need to teach their children principles of respect and acceptance.
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The problem is Silicon Valley, which is an amazing ecosystem, also ends up being an amazing bubble, with white guys talking to white guys about white-guy problems. So it's great, but you kind of miss a lot of things around you.
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Bitcoin has the potential to destroy credit cards and banks as we know it. Maybe that is a good thing or a bad thing, but I like the idea that if someone needs to remit payments, they can do it without being gouged.
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As an older lineman, if you start to sit around, you get stiff. You get tired. Things start to set in.
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Food for me has to pop, and at Spice Market, the food really pops.
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You make due with the time you have here. Hopefully when you pass on, somebody can look back and say, 'Wow, they made a difference in some kind of way.'
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The raising of an eyebrow, how you do it; when you look, how you look. All those little things are physical.
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For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.
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The mediation by the serpent was necessary. Evil can seduce man, but cannot become man.
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The problem with me, as far as getting married and having a family, is that my comedy is so important to me. So I don't know if I'll ever be as good a dad as my dad.
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It's just as hard for man to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the species as it was to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the universe. He sees himself quite unconsciously as the main line of evolution, with a female satellite revolving around him as the moon revolves around the earth. This not only causes him to overlook valuable clues to our ancestry, but sometimes leads him into making statements that are arrant and demonstrable nonsense.
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I don't think that I've ever really been interested in many other things aside from music and making art in general.
