Alice Dunbar Nelson Quotes
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I'm a mother of three. I don't really have the time to put very elaborate outfits together, so I keep it casual but dress it up with shoes, a bag, and jewellery.
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When you start writing songs on your own, there's no Bible, there's no one around you, so you're just writing, and you're left with, like, the dead space in your head to know if it's a good song or an interesting concept.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
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You see, I don't draw from life at all, but I do look out of my window a lot.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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I find myself frequently introducing myself to someone, saying that, you know, I've grown up black and biracial in the United States.
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We all need to slow down and go to acupuncture.
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Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
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If I have to draw attention away from some hormone-induced acne on my chin, I put on a lot of mascara.
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I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.
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I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.
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What I like least about acting is that when you're only in one place, you're missing the other part of life.
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Occasionally it does hit me, the words on a page. And I still love doing that, as I have for the last 60 years.
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You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.
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I started out as a singer and a musician, and I was taught that your job is just to get out of the way of Brahms or Arthur Miller or Shakespeare and convey the brilliance that they created.
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I think Eminem should use Auto-Tune.
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Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood.
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And through it all, calm and impassive, leaning on his elbow and gazing down, Wolf Larsen seemed lost in a great curiosity. This wild stirring of yeasty life, this terrific revolt and defiance of matter that moved, perplexed and interested him.
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The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.
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The biggest mistake to me is complacency.
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To be blunt, we went down that road in Iraq. Thanks to the extraordinary sacrifices of our troops and the determination of our diplomats, we are hopeful about Iraq’s future. But regime change there took eight years, thousands of American and Iraqi lives, and nearly a trillion dollars. That is not something we can afford to repeat in Libya.
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The country crowd just has fun.
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It's punishment to be compelled to do what one doesn't wish.
