Anthea Butler Quotes
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Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.
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Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.
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When I was a kid, I wanted a Chanel bob and bangs. My mom said no. I went to the salon anyway, and they said, 'No way - we are not going to do that to your hair.' So I did it myself. Big mistake. Instead of my bangs going down straight, they were sticking up like a cat. It was horrible.
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There's nothing I would love more than to host an awards show where I'm nominated for an award - that is so funny to me.
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For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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My father did irrigation jobs, and I would sometimes accompany him, and that gave me a taste of what was going on in the innards of India.
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Let me just tell you how thrilling it really is, and how, what a challenge it is, because in 1988 the question is whether we're going forward to tomorrow or whether we're going to go past to the - to the back!
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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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I got a psychology degree from USC, but music is just my whole life.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
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A few honest men are better than numbers.
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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During the Cold War, the United States took its friends where it found them. If they were willing to cast their lot with us, from the Shah to Gen. Pinochet, we welcomed them. Democratic dissidents like Jawaharlal Nehru in India and Olof Palme in Sweden got the back of our hand.
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
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We're homebodies. I've gotten to see my kids' first steps, first smiles, first words. Every day is a weekend.
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It is clear that the causal nexus is not a nexus at all.
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After my 10-match ban in 2013 for biting Branislav Ivanovic, I had questioned the double standards and how the fact that no one actually gets hurt is never taken into consideration.
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Do not let yourself get in your own way. Don't judge yourself and knock yourself down. There is enough of that out there already. Remember: you are an artist, and you bring something special to this craft. Take in notes and criticism, but don't let them define you. Don't try to become a watered down version of yourself.
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God, that all-powerful Creator of nature and architect of the world, has impressed man with no character so proper to distinguish him from other animals, as by the faculty of speech.
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My first real job, I sold Christmas trees when I was twelve for extra money. I did that until I was fifteen. Then I bagged groceries, and I worked at the first Borders ever in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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God ain't good all of the time. In fact, sometimes, God is not for us.
