Alice Childress Quotes
Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave - and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.
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I get intrigued by a first lin and I write to find out why it means something to me. You make discoveries just the way the reader does, so you're simultaneously the writer and the reader.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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I knew the moment it happened, it was a miracle. I could have been kissing her when she threw up. It would have scarred me for life. I may never have recovered.
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There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?
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I suffer from low self-esteem. I had horrible self-esteem growing up. You really have to save yourself because the critic within you will eat you up. It's not the outside world - it's your interior life, that critic within you, that you have to silence.
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'The Unity Band' project has been life-changing for me. I have led many groups of talented musicians, but this is unlike anything else.
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Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.
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Being a father is the most important thing, if you ask me. It changed me as a person and gave me an all new life.
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I'm never going to apologize for having a lot of guy friends, and I always have. That happens, and I'm not going to live my life where I'm not going to go out and have a coffee or lunch with my guy friends.
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I think I have a right to live my life the way I like.
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Life's there to make the most of, and that's what I do.
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My personal ambition remains the same - to be creative, to be modern, to stay one step ahead, to enjoy life.
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I love love, and I love life. I love. I just love. It's just great. It's the most enduring element we have is love.
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I think it's important if you are an actor, if you are portraying human life, you have to connect with what is human. It's not easy if you spend a lot of time in L.A. and get sucked into the hedonism of the industry.
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Phones rang constantly, as if the White House was conducting some kind of pardon telethon.
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The right to life is guaranteed to all Americans in the Declaration of Independence, and ensuring this is upheld is the Constitutional duty of all members of Congress.
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Life is a very orderly thing, but in fiction there is a huge liberation and freedom. I can do what I like. There's nothing that says I can't write a page of full stops. There is no 'should' involved, although you wouldn't know that from literary reviews and critics.
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I believe we create a lot of problems in our relationships if we don't feel safe to talk about our feelings at the speed of life.
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When I was coming up with the Hal Hartley films, I was cast as a no one. I had no name visibility. I was working at a downtown post-performance-art, avant garde theater company and doing a couple things on television. But I was a total unknown.
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I fought till my sword did cleave to my hand; and then they were joined together as if a sword grew out of my arm; and when the blood ran through my fingers, then I fought with most courage.
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Football has been everything to me since I was 10 years old.
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I'm addicted to Altoids. I call them 'acting pills.'
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Growth is usually uncomfortable. If you're looking for comfort, you will more than likely feel tired and old earlier than you want, and the misery of your caged soul will always be looming nearby.
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Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave - and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.
