Allan Donald Quotes
I have felt very frustrated and I would have hoped that my influence in the dressing room might have lifted some of the weight off the shoulders of the captain and coach.
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His acting remains forever fixed in a time that never dates.
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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Millions of American families affected by debilitating diseases have new hope today after the U.S. House passed legislation to support potentially life-saving stem cell research.
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The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.
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It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.
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I love parties. I love a good time.
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I love sport because I love life, and sport is one of the basic joys of life.
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It's okay to take time for yourself. We give so much of ourselves to others and we need to be fueled both physically and mentally. If we are in balance, it helps us in all our interactions.
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Let's say I was a plumber, or I worked at a factory, I would download music, you feel what I'm saying?
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I'm self-taught and emailed photographers I knew if I had questions I couldn't figure out from the manual or online.
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I didn't have a role model. My role model was Michael Jordan. Bad role model for an Indian dude... I didn't have anyone who looked like me. And by the time I was old enough to have what could have been a role model, they were my peers. Aziz Ansari is my peer. Kal Penn is my peer.
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I read mails throughout the day but answer mails more in the morning and evening.
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I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.
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My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.
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My father was my hero, and he died when I was 11. So, I really never experienced the kind of natural teenage rebellion or the anger at him. I never experienced those feelings as a young person.
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Rap is always evolving. It's easy for the old school to hate the new school, but it's a music that got a little stifled I think, by the Internet a little bit.
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Writing a memoir is such a private, personal experience that it's intimidating to think of adapting it for television.
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We live in a world of virtual goods where none of us own the 0s and 1s. What are you going to do?
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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John Coltrane was probably my deepest influence, along with Jimi Hendrix, Elvin Jones, Bud Powell, Thelonious Monk, Mahalia Jackson, Ravi Shankar, Art Tatum, Clifford Brown, Eric Dolphy, Oscar Peterson, John Lewis, Bill Evans, Yehudi Menuhin, McCoy Tyner, THE BEATLES, Jimmy Smith, Keith Jarret, Glenn Gould, Aldo Ciccolini, Georgy Cziffra, Dinu Lipatti and Clara Haskil, with whom I worked as a child.
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Not even generals can stop the rain.
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Coach is a straightforward guy. If you're not paying attention to detail, that burns him up. But he'll also be the first to throw his arm around you. He's a fun guy to be around.
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I have felt very frustrated and I would have hoped that my influence in the dressing room might have lifted some of the weight off the shoulders of the captain and coach.
