Teyonah Parris Quotes
I think people need to watch 'Chi-Raq' because you need to know what's happening in your back yard.
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Your opening should give the reader a person to focus on. In a short story, this person should turn up almost immediately; he should be integral to the story's main action; he should be an individual, not just a type. In a novel, the main character may take longer to appear: Anna Karenina doesn't show up in her own novel until chapter eighteen.
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I'm not Cinderella.
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Los Angeles is a city known as much for it's sun as for its stars and it's dirty air.
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No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.
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With so many millions of titles available, the books that will get talked about are the books that make readers talk about them.
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When you commit to something and have fun with it, it appreciates you, the gift, and it starts to help you out.
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I always think of my films within the context of where aesthetics meet economics. That's the nature of making art - not being naive about what is possible and getting what you need to tell the story you want to tell.
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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
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Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
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In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.
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It's easy to get distracted by the vaudevillian aspects of the healthcare debate.
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Our international success started out first because we became the No. 1 casual wear brand in our home market of Japan. Then, we set up stores in the world's major fashion centers of New York, Paris and London.
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My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.
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I spent a lot of time with a crown on my head.
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But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.
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Ideas are all around me. If I wasn't interested in them myself, I don't think anyone else would be either.
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I've never had to compromise myself for a job, ever.
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I've worked hard throughout my entire life, but I don't think all the hard work could have produced the same results without all the genetics I was given.
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Everyone always talks about how well mothers know their children. No one ever seems to notice how well children know their mothers.
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I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.
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To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!
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I had no idea 'The Dream Weaver' would be so successful. Everything just fell into place with that album. I pioneered a number of ideas with that album and subsequent tour. The all-keyboard approach with no guitars was a new one, and I was one of the first to use a drum machine in concert. It was an amazing time.
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I think people need to watch 'Chi-Raq' because you need to know what's happening in your back yard.
