Anne Spencer Quotes
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My mom could be pretty strict.
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I had to create some good work habits and attitude.
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There are lines that I know are going to get a belly laugh, but after a few shows I get sick of hearing myself say them so I drop them.
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My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
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Filipino talents and skills are becoming ubiquitous in many parts of the world. Returning Filipino workers have helped improve our skills and technological standards.
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I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
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What I really want is a world where no one alive can remember what the word 'war' means. That's my goal.
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I still get to preach 14, 15 times a year. But you have to make a living.
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Every lover is a soldier.
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I've no interest in going on a road trip. If I want to go on holiday, I want to sit on a beach, swim, drink cocktails and read a book.
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Of all the punctuation marks; he told me ellipses were his favorites.
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Listen to this, and I'll tell you 'bout the heartache I'll tell you 'bout the heartache and the loss of God.
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The paintings of Francis Bacon to my eye are very beautiful. The paintings of Bosch or Goya are to my eye very beautiful. I've also stood in front of those same paintings with people who've said, 'let's get on to the Botticellis as soon as possible.' I have lingered, of course.
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The powers of the teenagers in 'The Darkest Minds' were always meant to represent that inherent drive that young people have to make change, and how the world pushes back against it.
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I've always avoided publicity. I've never been good copy at any stage of my life. I don't strive for it, because I don't think it's important whether I'm good copy or not. The two can go together, if that's your personality, but every person on this earth is unique.
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Having the option to be able to have a career and feel good about yourself as an individual and still be a great mother is definitely a possibility.
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I do believe sometimes discipline is very important. I'm not just lying around like a lazy cow all the time.
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I've worked on movies that are being rewritten as you go, but you take so long and so much time doing it, that it's not really an issue knowing what's going to happen or how the movie is going to end.
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I move very slowly. It's usually material first. I sit with the material for a long time.
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I'm my own worst enemy and I know that.
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The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.
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I don't think Donald Trump is a conservative. I think his line on China for example, that he's going to talk tough to China. China didn't create Social Security, Medicare. China isn't spending a fifth of a billion dollars every hour that it doesn't have.
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Is any prophet come to teach a new thing Now in a more apt time?
