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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If your child is born with a port-wine stain, they should be seen immediately by a pediatric dermatologist. Your pediatrician does not understand these birthmarks as well as a specialist.
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If any child of mine becomes an actor I will turn in my grave.
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I was very fortunate to grow up with parents who love to travel, so I traveled from a young age. My dad's a heart surgeon and goes to conferences all over the world. By the time I was seven, I traveled outside the country for the first time. We went to Paris. The next year, we went to London, and then Brussels.
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You're actually using your brain. That's what comes from associating with me.
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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.
