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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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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I hate that thing that if you are over 45, and you're going to be on telly or make films, you have to do all this stupid stuff to your face. I would no more let someone stick a needle in my forehead than fly to the moon.
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I still wear my write-in wristband. It used to be plastic, but my husband turned it into gold.
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I feel like 'Next To Me' is a great introduction because it's a simple song that has a simple message for me. I wanted to introduce something that lyrically I'm proud of and introduces me both as an artist and as a writer.
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I don’t get angry, I don’t want to use harsh words. They are our colleagues and we have to work with them. But they also have to learn to work with us.
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Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.
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No man has any influence or power for good when angry.
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When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman.
