Anthea Butler Quotes
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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I'm fortunate to be famous for two rather imposing characters like Magneto and Gandalf.
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The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressions and that I should be converted with my whole heart to the Lord my God.
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There's too much insecurity on studio sets, with all the people standing around, whispering.
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I have an unending desire to be better and make myself a better person, better mother.
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I never wanted to be a dancer. I was too big, I was too slow. I remember not liking it. Later on, when I came to the United States, I realized I had a skill, and when you come to this country, you realize if you have a skill and a determination, you can do anything.
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New York's definitely got my heart.
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The gimmicky thing I'm not very keen on.
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I just love shows that don't hand everything to you, that ask you to be smarter. I think that's something really important that HBO has done to change the landscape of TV.
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Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
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I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think, in essence, what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.
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The early part of my career was the 1990s, and I was living in New York working as an actor. It was the world I was in. A lot of companies had a great deal of money.
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We need to save the education system. We need to remove education from the framework of the political parties that rule in the State of Israel. We need to increase the allocation of long-term national resources to education and never touch them - no matter what.
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Politics is politics; art is art. If you play a political role, you have to stop being an artist.
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I had a lot of anger because I wasn't happy with the way I had been raised.
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Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred.
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I was madder than a quadriplegic with a stag full of scratch off tickets, I'll tell you what.
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These niggas ain't thugs, the real thugs is the government. Don't matter if you're Independent, Democrat or Republican
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When I was little, my dad used to call me 'Bandarella,' because I was a mess - a Bandar is a monkey in Hindi. I was not a girly-girl and would always break something and would be running around and didn't really fit in.
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Poetry is like making a joke. If you get one word wrong at the end of a joke, you've lost the whole thing.
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The greatest things in life - truth, creativity, imagination, love, kindness, compassion -are already inside us, and they're all free.
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Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
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If there is anyone who values free speech, it is a tenured professor!
