Alice Childress Quotes
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If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more. Through the darkness which shrouds our prospects, the ark of safety is visible. Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters.
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When a culture has fallen totally away from spiritual pursuits into materialism, one must begin by demonstrating they are each a soul, not a material animal.
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I dread shooting with animals. I hope I never get a script with snakes.
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
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Everything that has happened to me has been amazing and surprising.
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I don't think it is so difficult to solve the problems between Cuba and the United States; it all depends on whether there is a dialogue, a discussion, or if the prejudices and hatred of people like the extremists and terrorists from the Cuban community, who try to impose their policies, prevail.
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In a strange way, I'm way more comfortable onstage than anywhere else.
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When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.
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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
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I am formless and everywhere. I am in everything. I am in everything and beyond. I fill all space. All that you see, taken together, is Myself. I do not shake or move.
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I love westerns. I've always wanted to do a western.
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You don't want to influence the same system you are trying to forecast.
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It's hard for me to judge my own films as an artist sometimes. But as an artist, I did feel a fulfillment working on them, you know?
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There's apparently soccer leagues that they've set up with young Indian girls.
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To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.
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Somewhere we went wrong We were once so strong Our love is like a song You can't forget it at all.
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Molti consigli de le donne sonoMeglio improviso, ch'a pensarvi, usciti.
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The pilot of 'Seinfeld' was made and dropped. 'Seinfeld' was not supposed to go to series.
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Vanity is my favourite sin.
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My idea of the modern Stoic sage is someone who transforms fear into prudence, pain into information, mistakes into initiation, and desire into undertaking.
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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
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It's true that the French have a certain obsession with sex, but it's a particularly adult obsession. France is the thriftiest of all nations; to a Frenchman sex provides the most economical way to have fun. The French are a logical race.
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We've got to take some drastic steps in this country. We can't keep spending and spending.
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The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.
