Dana Fox Quotes
It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.
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What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
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Ever since I was a child, I would start crying seeing anyone in pain.
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I could sum up the future in one word, and that word is 'boring.' The future is going to be boring.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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The trouble is that, while my parents were great when they were apart, they were terrible together.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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Congress is so beholden to the money that any solution in the general interest will be frustrated and subverted by the corporate interests who feel they will be damaged by progress, fair play and justice.
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Here's how I work: It's 2013, and most marketers are operating like it's 2009. I'm always trying to market like it's 2015, but not like it's 2020. A lot of my contemporaries who understand where the world is going, go too far out, and aren't practical. I have always prided myself on being visionary, with a heavy practicality.
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I don't think an actor ever wants to establish an image. That certainly hurt me, and yet that is also what made me successful and eventually able to do more challenging roles.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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As an inspiration to the author, I do not think the cat can be over-estimated. He suggests so much grace, power, beauty, motion, mysticism. I do not wonder that many writers love cats; I am only surprised that all do not.
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When I was little, we had a Golden Book that had all these Disney characters in one portrait on the first page. My dad used to read from it every night. We'd play this game of find Pluto or find Donald Duck. He'd read us stories and do all the voices. Those are great memories.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.
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There's a pleasure in being reminded of the value of ordinary life.
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That's really my goal now. I'm trying to be a positive role model to my kids and to just enjoy this ride, because it's hard. It's hard to enjoy it when you're in it.
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Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There's a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for 'Moby-Dick': 'Miriam Coffin' by Joseph Hart.
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I'm trusting. I don't assume people lie to me.
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Even when you are playing someone who is real, you get their mannerisms and you get their little quirks, but, it still has to be something inside of you that connects with the role, or else you will not be any good.
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It is still a surprise when people tell me that I've had an influence on them, particularly when it's someone I really respect.
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The spoken word is never really effective unless it is backed up by a life, but it is also true that the living deed is never adequate without the support the spoken word can provide.
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I never had a desire to be a filmmaker. As a child and a teenager and in college, I was not aware of black women making films.
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It's rare to find women who have that balance between work and life, who are really psyched for another woman's success.
