Karyn Parsons Quotes
The problem with relegating black history to one really short month, the shortest month, is not only are we telling the same stories over and over again - which are amazing, George Washington Carver is incredible, there's nobody like Frederick Douglass - but there are so many.
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
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That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
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Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance.
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I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'
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Passover is my idea of a perfect holiday. Dear God, when you're handing out plagues of darkness, locusts, hail, boils, flies, lice, frogs, and cattle murrain, and turning the Nile to blood and smiting the firstborn, give me a pass. And tell me when it's over.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.
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In talking to you I feel very much more at ease than my colleagues who gave the speeches during the banquet.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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I always think Michelle Williams is excellent in her work. And I do love Sofia Coppola. She always creates something so atmospheric. I love Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola, Andrea Arnold.
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I love going to the cinema. Whenever I get time off, that's where I go.
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I don't care what people think of me as a person, but I do care what people think of my work, and whether I'm investing enough into it.
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I work on words, mostly, toward them being poetry or short stories, and then some of those become songs. They all find their place in the world, but they all start off in the same place. I'm always painting and drawing as well, and it's an ongoing creative assignment.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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I had to make peace with my past because I can't change it.
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You have to love your body, respect it, and treat it well.
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I originally passed on 'Girls' because I thought TV was evil.
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I think the President is clearly insane in several ways, and insanest upon war and its supreme glories. I think he longs for a big war wherein he can spectacularly perform as chief general and chief admiral, and go down in history as the only monarch of modern times that has served both offices at the same time.
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I tell you, it was kind of two-fold. I fortunately had a lot of support. My coach was amazing - he told me to focus on being prepared and that is what I did. Every athlete is nervous - any athlete who tells you they're not nervous isn't telling you the truth. I was as prepared as I could be.
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I set out to tell my story, which is based on my family. Dr. Cosby told his story in 'The Cosby Show.' The comparisons stop there in terms of my creation of the show. We just both happen to have black fathers at the center of it.
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Black and white players hadn't appeared together in public before Teddy Wilson and I began working with B.G.
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The problem with relegating black history to one really short month, the shortest month, is not only are we telling the same stories over and over again - which are amazing, George Washington Carver is incredible, there's nobody like Frederick Douglass - but there are so many.
