Alma Powell Quotes
Everyone, both big and small, can pull their weight, and ensure that the hopes and dreams of every child become realities.
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I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.
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After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.
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I was in the invasion of Normandy in southern France.
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Merlin really taught me how to concentrate, that you play each play as if it were the only play. And if you put all the plays together like that, then you'll come out on top.
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I'm a professional, and I know what I have to do. I know where I've failed and how I've grown up.
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Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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I've been an actor now since freshman year of college, so it's 11 or 12 years.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound.
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My books cover many aspects of daily life through which your children will recognize their own relationships in their families and communities.
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I like shopping at retail places like JC Penney or Macy's, and maybe buying a top or a shirt, and then buying a skirt from Rue 21 or Forever 21 because they have the maxi skirts, which I appreciate so much, and then topping it off with something that I buy from a Somali shop.
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A family is really a union of two separate entities. When you get married, you are marrying one family into another.
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I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
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I like to write a lot of satire.
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It wouldn't be fair to drag a child round the world, touring.
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The greatest part of each day, each year, each lifetime is made up of small, seemingly insignificant moments. Those moments may becooking dinner...relaxing on the porch with your own thoughts after the kids are in bed, playing catch with a child before dinner, speaking out against a distasteful joke, driving to the recycling center with a week's newspapers. But they are not insignificant, especially when these moments are models for kids.
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I guess I have a talent for humiliation, a place within me that experience can't reach, which is terrible in real life but something that comes in handy in writing. It seems as though humiliation has become a career for me.
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There are instances where you're in a space with someone who has been extraordinarily successful, and they don't necessarily connect with you as another person. You can be a prop for them to deliver their stuff, and you're just another element in the scene.
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There is a supply for every demand.
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Everyone, both big and small, can pull their weight, and ensure that the hopes and dreams of every child become realities.
