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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We need to accept that consumption is not the end goal of our life and stop measuring our well-being simply on the basis of earnings. We need to explicitly take the quality of our work-related life into account in judging our well-being.
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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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I got pigeonholed a bit. When I wanted to be an actress, I never wanted to be the kind of actress I became.
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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 hope you will understand my hesitation in writing to one whom I admire as the greatest representative of a philosophy to which I want to dedicate my whole life.
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One of the things that I am happy about in my life as an artist is that I am not considered a Hispanic artist.
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Like it or not, women are always subject to criticism if they show too much feeling in public.
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Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.
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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.
