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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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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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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Few are there that will leave the secure seclusion of the scholar's life, the peaceful walks of literature and learning, to stand out a target for the criticism of unkind and hostile minds.
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Difficult times always create opportunities for you to experience more love in your life.
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Main Street, U.S.A. is America at the turn of the century--the crossroads of an era. The gas lamps and the electric lamp--the horse-drawn car and auto car. Main Street is everyone's hometown- the heart line of America.
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I love to travel, but hate to arrive.
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I grew up on the East Coast, and we always used to say, 'Go get your hustle on,' whether it was playing sports or making money. You do what you have to do to do what you want to do.
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It's a privilege just to wake up to a new day.
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A woman with a mind is fit for any task.
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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.
