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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“How to do without, in order to grow within.”
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I would love to set foot on another planet - lunar or Mars or somewhere.
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In science, it is rare that a transformational change occurs during our lifetimes.
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I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.
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Antagoras the poet was boiling a conger, and Antigonus, coming behind him as he was stirring his skillet, said, 'Do you think, Antagoras, that Homer boiled congers when he wrote the deeds of Agamemnon?' Antagoras replied, 'Do you think, O king, that Agamemnon, when he did such exploits, was a peeping in his army to see who boiled congers?'
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God ain't good all of the time. In fact, sometimes, God is not for us.
