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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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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The notion of looking on at life has always been hateful to me. What am I if I am not a participant? In order to be, I must participate.
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Prolonged unemployment is a tragedy of broken lives, broken families, foreclosed homes, and life without health insurance.
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It would be wonderful if the public sector were always great, or always terrible; or if the private sector were always great, or always terrible. Alas, reality is more complicated than comforting caricatures. Governments fail, and corporations fail.
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Is there something about the gay experience, being gay and the gay experience, that pushes us even more than other people toward competition?
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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.
