Alice Coltrane Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.
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I wasn't a visionary but I literally had my finger on the pulse of the women of America.
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I try to give my best to everything I do. I don't think of housework as beneath my dignity; that's just the way I was brought up.
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You would never see me driving around in a sports car. I feel like you're so low and squish-able by transport trucks.
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It's good to go out and entertain these people, and you've got them on the edge of their seat, they're standing up. Then you know that you've done your job, you've entertained them. My way of entertaining them is going out and wrestling. Everyone's got their different ways.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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I didn't learn to read until I was almost 14 years old. Reading out loud for me was a nightmare because I would mispronounce words or reconstruct things that weren't even there. That's when one of my teachers discovered I had a learning disability called dyslexia. Once I got help, I read very well!
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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My parents would have loved it if my brother or I had become a doctor or lawyer.
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I like to play 'Battleship,' and I also like 'Wordle' on iPhone. These are good things to play while you're on set. 'Words with Friends' is also great.
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I can bat in the morning, afternoon, evening, night, on ice, desert, wherever and whenever. It is almost nirvana for me. It takes me away from the stresses of life.
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Most of all, however, critics of black conservatives say we've forgotten where we came from. I may forget a federal budget number or, God forbid, to set the alarm clock for my weekly 6 a.m. flight to Washington, but I know exactly where I came from.
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I am Lebanese, and I know the interests of my country.
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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A sociopath is not just someone who doesn't care about human emotion. They're someone who understands people to the point that they can manipulate them to an extraordinary degree.
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I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
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The role of culture is that it's the form through which we as a society reflect on who we are, where we've been, where we hope to be.
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What I'm after is something different than supplying people with the idea that I'm writing an important play.
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Nuclear energy is the scientific achievement of the Iranian nation.
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What I do is look at ancient African tribes, and the way they dress. The rituals of how they dress. . . . There’s a lot of tribalism in the collections.
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Religion as a whole specializes in sin management. It's all about organizing humanity in such a way that we cause as little damage as possible.
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Most of my playing style is very on point - the tapping, just by nature of being rhythmic, is tight - so I'd like to explore something looser and less precise.
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John not only taught me to explore, but to play thoroughly and completely.
