Afia Nathaniel Quotes
I come from a family of very strong women, women who have endured very tough lives in hopes of a better one for their children.
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I like films to be complete in their written form.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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When I travel, there are no rules with my diet. I eat whatever looks good, but in small portions. Food is such a rich part of the travel experience. There is no way I would cut that out!
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I believe that we are at a very low level of consciousness, and we do not know how to treat each other as human beings. We are caught up in our own lives, our own needs, our own ego gratification. I feel a strong sense of responsibility in delivering that message.
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Technology has enabled government to have investigative and situational awareness on a scale and scope that were science fiction when the Stasi shut its doors.
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I believe in reincarnation of the soul.
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Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes friction.
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One is sometimes meant to reassure the reader that she's qualified to write about a certain topic.
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I'm the artist formally known as Beck. I have a genius wig. When I put that wig on, then the true genius emerges. I don't have enough hair to be a genius. I think you have to have hair going everywhere.
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All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
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I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.
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I have this habit to bow my head, as to look shorter, maybe as a result of an unconscious demand of not taking up so much space.
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I just grill chicken and make very simple cuisine.
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I was not sympathetic to the assumption that criminals had radically different motivations from everyone else.
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I certainly had no intention of playing a man.
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As anyone who has recently seen PG-13 movies knows, the level of violence in them has increased to the point of making the Motion Picture Association of America's voluntary rating system meaningless.
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Men are such power-seeking creatures, and they usually kill people to get to the throne.
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I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be boycotted.
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The mind likes a strange idea as little as the body likes a strange protein and resists it with similar energy. It would not perhaps be too fanciful to say that a new idea is the most quickly acting antigen known to science.
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I don't regret anything. I feel like I've made what I would call mistakes. I picked the wrong movie, or I didn't pursue a character, but everything you do is part of you and you get something from it.
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I have no ambitions at all! I have none... seriously. I want to be a good father. I want to be a good husband. I want to be a good son, a good brother, a good family member. I don't have any ambition to direct a film or write a play. I like acting.
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Children are not children. They are just younger people.
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...thankful to finally be reunited with my wife and five children. I did my time in prison and have moved on with my life. I hope and pray that everyone will try to understand that my past is behind me and to please focus on my future and what I do from here on out.
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I come from a family of very strong women, women who have endured very tough lives in hopes of a better one for their children.