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 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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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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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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I was obsessed with Nancy Drew growing up - I couldn't get enough.
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I hope they find some way to come up with a new story that involves Beast in my timeline.
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I wrote 'Ruined' and 'Vera Stark' at the same time. That's just how my brain functions - when I'm dwelling someplace very heavy, I need a release.
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It is rarely that the pleasures of the imagination will compensate for the pain of sleeplessness.
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The pain of recovery is sometimes worse than the pain of the injury. Allow Jesus Christ to heal your soul.
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I never have voted for a pay increase for me, and with such a huge federal deficit, I don't think it's right to vote for a pay increase for yourself ... My salary is greater than most of the people in my congressional district, and there is no way I can vote for a pay raise when many of them are just getting by.
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In talking and communicating, it's important that we really share information with one another - because I think that leads to better understanding - and also just kind of educate one another in a way that's really honest.
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'Lord Arthur, may I present Lady Wednesday's Dawn?' Arthur bowed. He had already half-guessed the identity of their surprise guest. She had the hauteur that all the chief servants of the Trustees possessed. A kind of look that said, I am superior and you had better admit it.
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The Black writer explains pain to those who inflict it.
