Karyn Parsons Quotes
My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.
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What is more important? What the members of a politicised tribunal say, or what the citizens vote for? For me, it is clear.
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May He who holds in his hands the destinies of nations, make you worthy of the favors He has bestowed, and enabled you with pure hearts and hands and sleepless vigilance, to guard and defend to the end of time, the great charge He has committed to your keeping.
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Think of an economy where people could be an artist or a photographer or a writer without worrying about keeping their day job in order to have health insurance.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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I was born in San Diego, and we moved to Los Angeles when I was seven. A couple of years later, I started acting!
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I've always believed that a good twist is one that, when it is presented to the audience, half of them say, 'I saw that coming.' And half of them are completely and totally shocked. Because if you don't have the half that saw it coming, then it wasn't fair: You never gave the audience a chance to guess it.
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I want the single player experience.
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The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
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A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.
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I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.
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Christina can sing all the notes, but Britney is just hot!
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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My view is that while you do occasionally have differences you ought to have a process where you can sit down and talk about things. How else do you solve problems?
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The Chinese are brought up to believe that you should be silent in class. The teacher speaks, and you just listen and absorb what they say.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?
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I would like to be a terrorist for music education - to make a complete reform, all over the world.
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Sublime wonders lie in store,I am shown a regal residence;a mighty kingdom, an empirewith more grandeur than before.
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It depends on ourselves to be to each others, either a blessing or a torment.
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One must be entirely sensitive to the structure of the material that one is handling. One must yield to it in tiny details of execution, perhaps the handling of the surface or grain, and one must master it as a whole.
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My mother didn't find motherhood easy. I've heard her saying that. She didn't breastfeed me. I woke up when I was breastfeeding my own child thinking, 'How can a woman feel an attachment to a child without breast-feeding?'
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My mother was a librarian, and she worked at the Black Resource Center in South Central Los Angeles and would call me to tell me stories that she read about that were interesting to her.
