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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I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
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I don't think anyone has the right to intrude in your life, but they do. I would like people to separate the actress and the woman.
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It is clear that when you write a story that takes place in the past, you try to show what really happened in those times. But you are always moved by the suspicion that you are also showing something about our contemporary world.
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From that moment on, the newspaper became a highly lucrative investment for those with a talent for making money or for publishers wanting to gain a fortune.
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I think people need to watch 'Chi-Raq' because you need to know what's happening in your back yard.
