Alice Childress Quotes
I believe racism has killed more people than speed, heroin, or cancer, and will continue to kill until it is no more.
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Metro never really wanted me for anything. I was always the one who happened to be free when their first choice was not.
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Life is a school of probability.
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I'm a compulsive reader of fiction. I fell in love with novels when I was a teenager. My wife Marilyn and I... our initial friendship began because we are both readers. I've gone to sleep almost every night of my life after having read in a novel for 30 or 40 minutes. I'm a great reader of fiction and much less so of non-fiction.
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While make-up helps to enhance one's features, too much of it tends to hide a person's features.
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In L.A., you constantly go on auditions, and you're usually not what they're looking for - you get used to going back and back to the same show, and nothing happens.
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The best way to preserve your privacy is to use a search engine that does not keep your logs in the first place. That's the approach used by Startpage and its European parent company, Ixquick.
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I think about food literally all day every day. It's a thing.
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There is a blessed necessity by which the interest of men is always driving them to the right; and, again, making all crime mean and ugly.
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I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and when Oliver plays with other sax players, it's like a dialogue.
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No, you don't have to start your play with a premise. You can start with a character or an incident, or even a simple thought. This thought or incident grows, and the story slowly unfolds itself. You have time to find your premise in the mass of your material later. The important thing is to find it.
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Filmmaking is a business and at the bottom line people who don't make fiscally responsible decisions end up going into another line of work.
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There's great stuff out there, but I prefer doing a TV show, going to work every day with the same people, and a lot of stuff is not being shot in Los Angeles and I don't really want to do that because my loved ones are here.
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There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.
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When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.
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I guess I've dated smart guys, I've dated dumb guys, hot guys.
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I knew that in Hollywood they tend to pigeonhole talent, and when you experience a little success in one genre, their instinct is to keep you in that box.
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Love is tested in so many ways. How do I articulate this? Two people are together. There are stakes, strife, struggles, all these things that make us fall for someone, love someone even more, leave someone.
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When Ignatius understood that God did not wish him to remain at Jerusalem, he began to consider what he should do. The plan he approved and adopted was to enter upon a course of study in order to be better fitted to save souls.
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We are more casual about qualifying the people we allow to act as advocates in the courtroom than we are about licensing electricians.
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Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette. I dress for men.
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Character is the starting point from which we go on. When I say a man has character, I mean that when you go to that man and say, 'What are the facts in this case?' he will tell you the truth, justly, truly, and wisely as he knows, with the minimum of exhibitionism and the maximum of devotion to the common cause.
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“Is it something I said?” Jane asked. And if so, which sentence? There had been so many of them, after all.
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I have the rare privilege of talking to my dad every night at 10 p.m. and hearing about what he did that day.
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I believe racism has killed more people than speed, heroin, or cancer, and will continue to kill until it is no more.
