Thandie Newton (Melanie Thandiwe) Quotes
If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.
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Getting recognized and doing shoots and signing on partnerships and signing on deals, that's all great, and I'm so appreciative of that, but it's more the reward that's the most satisfying. I know the importance of working hard, and I appreciate pretty much everything that has come my way; I don't take any of it for granted.
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I believe that blues and jazz are the two uniquely American contributions into music.
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We have seen the damage already caused to the music industry and we have to continue to make the public and government bodies globally aware of the damage that will happen if DVD piracy is not brought under control.
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Sometimes my arm wants to throw a hard fastball, but my brain doesn't want to throw it that hard.
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At the end of the 1970s, I was a young researcher at the Weizmann Institute with an ambitious plan to shed light on one of the major outstanding questions concerning living cells: the process of protein biosynthesis.
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Charter laws do something really important. They give educators the freedom and flexibility that they need to attain results. But we also have to invest a lot in the leadership pipeline to take advantage of that freedom and flexibility.
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In nature, light creates the color. In the picture, color creates the light.
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What is important – what I consider success – is that we make a contribution to our world.
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When I left the state of Maine for college, I met my first really rich friends, and I discovered summer could be a verb.
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A lot of the people of the Midwest came from the Northeast. We're of the same stock. Yet something must have happened when we crossed the Ohio River Valley because I have sensed that there's more of an openness and flexibility of spirit out West.
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One day, people will be able to buy tickets to visit space.
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I always wanted to win. Everyone has a bit of that in them, but I have even more of a will to win. Sometimes I might go overboard, whereas there are others who, yes, they want to win, but if they don't, it's no big deal for them.
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I understand and accept that for the people of Munich, only the treble will do.
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I can write anywhere. But I don't use a computer, and I could never write on a laptop. I hate the sound of computers; it's too dull, like it's not doing anything for you.
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There's not too many things I'm afraid of, but I'm not too brave when it comes to sitting in a chair getting my teeth drilled.
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Barbies were banned at our house, along with television other than PBS. As a kid, I found this horribly embarrassing.
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I was lucky - the first eight productions I auditioned for, I got cast.
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I'm crazy about Steven Spielberg. Another inspiration for me, and I don't know where it came from, is children. If I'm down, I'll take a book with children's pictures and look at it and it will just lift me up. Being around children is magic.
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There are little Indian girls out there who look up to me, and I never want to belittle the honor of being an inspiration to them. But while I’m talking about why I’m so different, white male show runners get to talk about their art.
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I started rapping because I wanted people to hear what I have to say, I want as many people to hear me as possible, and I do everything in my power to make that pop.
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I know where I'm supposed to be at the time of the snap. Now, where the play dictates I'm going to go is a different story.
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If we're all living in ourselves and mistaking it for life, then we're devaluing and desensitizing life.
