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.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Free
  • Me
  • Always

• Life is a school of probability.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Life
  • School
  • Life Is A

• 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.

  

  Irvin D. Yalom
  • Life
  • Great
  • Love

• While make-up helps to enhance one's features, too much of it tends to hide a person's features.

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Up
  • Person
  • Too Much

• 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.

  

  Nathan Parsons
  • You
  • Same
  • Looking

• 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.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Best
  • Parent
  • Search

• I personally see myself as a musician in the first place. You know, I don't want to say I will be a producer and DJ for the rest of my life. I can totally see myself being in another band in five years, if that's what my heart and soul wants to do, if that's what will make me happy. I'm totally happy to just not DJ anymore.

  

  Anton Zaslavski
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Happy

• I think about food literally all day every day. It's a thing.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Food
  • Day
  • Everyday

• 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.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Blessed
  • Driving

• There is no way to prosperity, prosperity is the way.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Way
  • Prosperity

• 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.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Pretty
  • Human
  • Voice

• 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.

  

  Lajos Egri
  • Time
  • Important
  • Character

• 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.

  

  Gale Anne Hurd
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• 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.

  

  Paget Brewster
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• There is nothing more exciting than having a life devoted to fundamental knowledge and to contributing to advance the borders of knowledge.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Nothing

• When I wrote 'Mushaboom', I was living in the second verse, but I suddenly found myself in the first.

  

  Feist
  • Myself
  • First
  • Living

• I guess I've dated smart guys, I've dated dumb guys, hot guys.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Smart
  • Dumb
  • Hot

• 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.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Experience
  • Success
  • Talent

• I was a pretty wild kid, and I probably lived 48 years in my first 20. But I always seemed to have a true line of faith for some reason.

  

  Michael Harney
  • Pretty
  • Faith
  • Reason

• Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Important
  • Funny
  • More

• However, while we should certainly celebrate the demise of overt official racism, we must also critically examine where we are at this historical moment, recognize the many challenges ahead and reaffirm our commitment to making Brown v. Board a reality.

  

  Ed Markey
  • Reality
  • Moment
  • Commitment

• Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.

  

  Constance Baker Motley
  • Racism

• For those who are concerned about me, please don’t be - I love Groupon, and I’m terribly proud of what we’ve created. I’m OK with having failed at this part of the journey. If Groupon was Battletoads, it would be like I made it all the way to the Terra Tubes without dying on my first ever play through.

  

  Andrew Mason
  • Proud
  • Journey
  • Dying

• I believe racism has killed more people than speed, heroin, or cancer, and will continue to kill until it is no more.

  

  Alice Childress
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  • Racism
  • Killed