Alice Childress Quotes
Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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As the ancient commander addressed his soldiers before battle, so should the moralist speak to men in the struggle of the era.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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You may earn whatever money you earn as a cricketer, but you want to play for your country. At the end of the day, you want to do something special. There are plenty of people who earn 50 crores or 100 crores as businessmen or big professionals or who are really doing well in business. But what gives pleasure to your mom and dad is the fame.
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I don't understand why people really get upset about something that doesn't affect them at all.
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I copied my brother. He was a natural dancer. Graceful. People always asked did we study ballet. We never did.
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Showbiz can be cruel.
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I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.
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When I started in 1992, I really thought the 'Vogue' fashion department was one of the most frightening places on the planet.
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From the very beginning, I've always just wanted to do something I've never done before. I'm still just trying to be on that path. It's all about working with filmmakers that you believe in.
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To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
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A priest encounters temptation every day, and some of that desire is very natural.
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It worked!
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The ecological teaching of the Bible is simply inescapable: God made the world because He wanted it made. He thinks the world is good, and He loves it. It is His world; He has never relinquished title to it. And He has never revoked the conditions, bearing on His gift to us of the use of it, that oblige us to take excellent care of it.
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Maybe that’s what the Masters are afraid of. Maybe celibacy isn’t as necessary as the Rule of Roke teaches. Maybe it’s not a way of keeping the power pure, but of keeping the power to themselves.
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She had never acquired in-between shades of character, had not had the opportunity. She had been utterly selfish, and was now selfless, because she had never become a whole person, did not like herself, or know herself. Nor had she ever gained sufficient wisdom to be properly horrified at what she meant to do. She couldn’t think that intensely.
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I believe in the goodness of man, and I believe we're all connected and that connection is through God. We have our differences. But if we will recognize that we like each other, that we are more common than uncommon, we will work toward what needs to be done to reconcile that.
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No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.
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The more you drop into your heart, the more God can drop into your mind.
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Dogs, also, bark at what they do not know.
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You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them.
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Everybody's got some sin, but if it troubles your heart you're a gentle sinner, just a good soul gone wrong.
