Alice Childress Quotes
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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 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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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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At a time of economic recession, the need for Medicaid and other safety net services is even greater. And we don't want to raise taxes on people who are having a tough time paying their bills.
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I got thrown out of music school for even listening to Fats Domino and Ray Charles. I was asked, 'What kind of music do you like to listen to?' and I said, 'Well, I do like Paul Hindemith and Igor Stravinsky but I also like Fats Domino and Ray Charles,' and they literally said, 'Either forget about that or leave.'
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When I was a kid, I had ambitions for being a television announcer, which was before television took off, you know, in the late '40s. And just through necessity, going out looking for work, I was starting to sing, and dance, and act, and I never expected to do that, nor to have any success at it at least.
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Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.
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Climate change has been immense difficulties of pains or illness or hard life on this planet. So through that way, you have sense of concern of the well being, not sky, not just the environment itself.
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Oh external worshiper, know that worship without heart is motions. Oh seeker of knowledge, know that knowledge without purification is a dangerous weapon of the ego. Oh activist, know that work without orientation of heart is fruitless. Oh lover, know that love without God is pain.
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To be avoided at all costs is the solace of opinion without the pain of thought.
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But I never worried about having a child in my 40s, which is unusual - normally, I'm the queen of worry.
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The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.
