Alessandra Stanley Quotes
When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman.
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Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't care to dwell on what happens to the innocent.
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You discover yourself through the research of your work.
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I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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I seem to get into situations that make people laugh, but I don't consider myself that funny of a person. I'm not witty. I'm kind of slow in conversations. I'm not that articulate with jokes. The first time I made stuff and screened it for an audience, I was surprised what people were laughing at.
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I don't see myself as famous; I see myself as a normal person with a job that is not very normal. My work life is very out there and very public. But I do my best to maintain my privacy.
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Why push people away? I love when people come up to me and say they appreciate the work!
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For me, my training is a key part of my work as so often my life has depended on being able to move fast and haul myself up and out of something fast!
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Annual plants are nature's emergency medical service, seeded in sounds and scars to hold the land until the perennial cover is re-established.
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Many tech company execs who visit to pitch products take time to peruse the shelves and exclaim upon various devices they owned in younger days.
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The thinking of art seems final when The thinking of god is smoky dew.
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There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
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Our most fundamental social need, it turns out, to my amazement, is love. Now, I'm not a hippie-dippie whatever. If you look at the literature, our most fundamental need for children is an environment of maximum love, and that they can be hugged, kissed, and loved. That's what humanises us and allows us to realise our whole dimension.
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I teach a lot of young musical theatre actors, and I notice that a lot of them say that they have a harder time connecting the classic repertoire.
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I always wear high heels - I simply feel naked without them.
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I think that always makes it fun, trying to create a heroic character and putting your own twist on it and injecting your own personality into it.
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The name on the front of the jersey is what really matters, not the name on the back.
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What is important is to find the best solution for your players.
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'The Great Gatsby,' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, remains the most perfect novel that has ever come out of the United States. Everything in the book moves as it should, in the manner of a piece by Bach or Mozart.
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U.S. foreign policy is Manichaean. It's like a Hollywood movie. You have to know who has the white hat and who has the black hat and then go against the black hat.
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The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: do more of what you do.
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The Partnership for Higher Education in Africa represents our commitment to Africa's next generation of leaders, who deserve an exemplary education to prepare them to help set the course for their nations' futures. We expect the universities in which we invest to become the foundation of a higher education network that will serve all of Africa for decades to come.
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It is the acceptance of death that has finally allowed me to choose life.
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When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman.
