Alice Childress Quotes
Writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.
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In truth, opinion may be taken for understanding; understanding cannot be taken for opinion. How so? Surely because opinion may be deceived; understanding cannot be. If it could, it would not be understanding but opinion. For true understanding has not only certain truth, but the knowledge of truth.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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I myself feel that I'm a well-rounded player and got a lot better defensively and without the puck as time has gone on.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
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But the one thing that I did do was establish myself as a good actor.
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The Arab representatives and their followers were not interested in the persecuted millions throughout the world; they were fixed on a political agenda that distracted the world from their own serious shortcomings in the human-rights department.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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I've been a bit of an electronics enthusiast and maker for a long time. I actually started the forum called ModRetro. It's an electronics enthusiast community that focuses on modifying vintage game consoles, and it's actually one of the larger game console modification forums on the Internet.
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I am the luckiest novelist in the world. I was a first-time novelist who wasn't awash in rejection slips, whose manuscript didn't disappear in slush piles. I have had a wonderful time.
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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.
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Actually I dance really well on the floor.
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I adore anything Michael Alexis writes.
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Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
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Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.
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My mom taught me German before I knew English. And I went to French immersion school.
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Lyrically, I could be so much sharper. Melodically, I could be so much stickier. Musically, I could have so much more texture. So I'm constantly doing that, trying to find new ways to mix things up.
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While working in a group is great, on-set especially, it means you just don't get to see the characters one-on-one.
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I just assume that I'll fail at something for several years - that I'll try my hardest and still fail for several years. With writing, that turned out to be wrong. I tried my hardest and failed for about fifteen years.
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Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing.
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Everything comes with a price. Everything. Some things just cost more than others.
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Writing is a labor of love and also an act of defiance, a way to light a candle in a gale wind.
