Natasha Trethewey Quotes
I overheard things in the Woolworths when I was a child, people saying, 'Oh, poor, little thing,' as if they had some understanding that I was being born biracial into a world that was still very difficult for interracial marriages and biracial children.
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In America, music is more tightly categorized.
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I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.
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In Bollywood, if you work with a superstar, even if you are a newcomer, you become a superstar. That didn't happen with me.
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We need to protect the privacy rights of all Americans, and that means stopping the federal government from spying on the cellphones and emails of law-abiding citizens.
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
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Getting pummelled is better than not playing anything at all.
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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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I started acting when I was seven. And I went to a local drama school which is very well-known in London. Because of that, I started getting jobs, and I worked all the time as a child, pretty much non-stop.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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As actors, we put in our best, but when people don't like a film, you have to learn to deal with it. I've learnt not to get too emotional.
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I mean, Tool has a style, but we try to make all our songs sound different from each other.
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If I can help a kid feel more comfortable in their skin because they're struggling with maybe the things I struggled with in high school, that's great.
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I've felt that if you dwell too much on your errors, you're dealing in the negativity of things. I don't like that. I'd rather work on the positive reinforcement, the things I did well.
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I don't do meetings.
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Dick Cheney and Bush's rise to power were built on tons of money from corporations and a dulled press.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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I don't think any other city in the world... the sun doesn't shine the same way anywhere as it does in New York. And then I guess everyone's very good at hanging out. Not in a crazy way, but you're just constantly interacting and learning.
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I can play in front of 30,000 people at Fenway and not be nervous at all. But I get really nervous in front of kids.
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Life is a lot more fun with good, positive people around you.
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I overheard things in the Woolworths when I was a child, people saying, 'Oh, poor, little thing,' as if they had some understanding that I was being born biracial into a world that was still very difficult for interracial marriages and biracial children.
