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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Hath the spirit of all beauty Kissed you in the path of duty?
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I am a registered Democrat and two-time unsuccessful candidate for office.
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I hate dogma in any form. I hated it in the Catholic Church and Girl Scout troops of the 1950s, and I hate in in gay activism and established feminism today.
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Put Mickelson and Toms out there. You know, they had the morning off. They rested. Knowing them and the competitors that they are, they are probably a little angry that they weren't out there in the morning.
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I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness.
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When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman.
