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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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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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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Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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I love 'House of Cards,' I love 'Bloodline,' I love 'Orange is the New Black,' so I had written on my refrigerator that I was looking for 'groundbreaking television on Netflix.'
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It kills me when people talk about California hedonism. Anybody who talks about California hedonism has never spent a Christmas in Sacramento.
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Each and every year I feel like I've gotten a little bit better and that's always been my goal, was just to get a little bit better.
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Certainly raising money is hard, and we wore the uniform of the nation so that others could become millionaires. Now we are returning to service of a different kind.
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My features I take from my father, but my spirit, my industry and perseverance I get from my Indian mother.
