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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We were taught manners and we had to do our chores - Katie and I grew up as normal kids.
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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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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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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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Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'
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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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I was lucky. My parents and teachers provided me with a wonderful and secure childhood where I always knew I was loved, valued, and listened to.
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A poet's work is to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.
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Mussolini is quite humiliated because our troops have not moved a step forward. Even today they have not succeeded in advancing and have halted in front of the first French fortification which put up some resistance.
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Broad-mindedness is related to tolerance; open-mindedness is the sibling of peace.
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My features I take from my father, but my spirit, my industry and perseverance I get from my Indian mother.
