Edmonia Lewis Quotes
My features I take from my father, but my spirit, my industry and perseverance I get from my Indian mother.
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Loyalty will not permit envy, hate, and uncharitableness to creep into our public thinking.
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I felt audiences are happier to take comedy people who play darker people because there's a link between the psychosis of comedy and the psychosis of being a twisted character.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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Matte digital prints are gorgeous, don't you agree? But the glossy digital prints, I just can't stand that paper.
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In its worse forms, conservatism is a matter of 'I hate strangers and anything that's different.'
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The human soul needs actual beauty more than bread.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them, must share the guilt for the dead.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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'Where is your million-dollar shirt?' I'm like, 'It's underneath these $25 Hanes T-shirts I've got on.'
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Because of my own insecurities about the way I look, I do sometimes sabotage the looks of my characters by making them as homely as possible. I've never done a glamour part. I'd like to some day, though I don't know if I could pull it off.
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Never above you. Never below you. Always beside you.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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It's the way you ride the trail that counts.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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As a writer and a mom, I wish I could split into two or three different people so I could be with my kids all day, write all day, and go out and do the interviews all day. Multiplicity woman!
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The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
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The Welfare Reform Act comes up this year for renewal. Is the President supporting efforts to insert meaningful work requirements into the bill, for today there is none? — February 18, 2004
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In this country, we rise or fall as one nation, as one people. Let's resist the temptation to fall back on the same partisanship and pettiness and immaturity that has poisoned our politics for so long.
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I love big movies, and I love big moments.
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Countries have improved since SARS. They understand the importance of responding and being as prompt and transparent as possible.
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Ever since I was first read to, then started reading to myself, there has never been a line read that I didn't hear. As my eyes followed the sentence, a voice was saying it silently to me. It isn't my mother's voice, or the voice of any person I can identify, certainly not my own. It is human, but inward, and it is inwardly that I listen to it. It is to me the voice of the story or the poem itself.
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My features I take from my father, but my spirit, my industry and perseverance I get from my Indian mother.
