Teyonah Parris Quotes
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Patience was not something that came naturally to me, but in cooking it is the quintessential skill.
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Coco Chanel once said that what makes a woman look old is trying desperately to look young. Why should one be ashamed to be 84? Why do you have to say that you're 52? Nobody's going to believe you anyway, so why be such a fool? It's nice that you got to be so old. It's a blessing.
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A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.
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We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.
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Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
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They wanted to audition people for the Middle East correspondent on 'The Daily Show.' They wanted to hire somebody ethnic for that slot. Helms had left, Cordry had left, and they felt that they needed an ethnic face. So, I went in and auditioned, and I got the job.
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I hate to lose. It's a bad feeling, but, I mean, it kind of gets you resettled, gets you back right.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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If you hate the Jewish people, you are not reflecting the teachings of Christ.
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My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.
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If you force legislators to balance, at the end of the day, if it has to be balanced, then they step up and they become legislators and can find out where to cut.
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I remember being told very early on, 'Just say what they want to hear in the audition, and we'll figure it out later on.' So there have been a few tricky moments. I once said I could ride, when the truth is I'm terrified of horses, but I got the job!
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You know, every family and every business in California knows what it means to go through tough times.
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Broad tolerance in the matter of beliefs is necessarily a part of the new ethics.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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It's important to understand that one gender is not superior to the other.
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I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.
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Glasgow is less polite than Edinburgh but that's a good thing - they keep it very real.
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At 13 years old, I realized I could start my own band. I could write my own song, I could record my own record. I could start my own label. I could release my own record. I could book my own shows. I could write and publish my own fanzine. I could silk-screen my own T-shirt. I could do this all myself.
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We asked a lot of questions and we watched everyone who was working in the studio. And we had an opportunity to sit in on discussions, aesthetic discussions at the pottery, which took place generally over tea breaks in the morning and afternoon. So we learned a lot just from being around there with Bernard Leach.
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I was a wild child tomboy.
