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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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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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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Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
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A family is too frail a vessel to contain the risks of all the warring impulses expressed when such a group meets on common ground.
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Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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From what deep springs of character our personal philosophies issue, we cannot be sure. In philosophers themselves we seem always able to notice some deep internal correspondence between the man and his philosophy. Are our philosophies, then, merely the inevitable outcome of the body of fate and personal circumstance that is thrust upon each of us? Or are these beliefs the means by which we freely create ourselves as the persons we become? Here, at the very outset, the question of freedom already hovers in the background.
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Why do we do basic research? To learn about ourselves.
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If you begin to think you are solely responsible for keeping your loved one alive and safe, you will eventually find yourself playing God. This phase can develop into an unhealthy, codependent relationship.
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I think people need to watch 'Chi-Raq' because you need to know what's happening in your back yard.
