Amma Asante Quotes
As people of color, we're left out of history. History is sort of told around us. We're bystanders, we're passive, we're observers. We're never the center of our history.
Amma Asante
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The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'
Utkarsh Ambudkar
I learned early on that in the real world, the masks of tragedy and comedy adorn the proscenium of every life.
Walter Cronkite
I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
Karl Lagerfeld
The terrorist attacks of September 11th and the courageous actions of our armed forces in Afghanistan and Iraq remind us that friends of tyranny and enemies of freedom still exist.
Carl Levin
I feel, even if someone is blessed with good hair, one needs to follow the basic hair care regime, and that means investing in the correct shampoo, conditioner, and mask.
Yami Gautam
It's a really subtle kind of thing. It makes me feel like Randy Harrison is not a human being to them.
Randy Harrison
There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.
Gary Gygax
I've figured out what to do with my hands... onstage. I'm a percussion player, so I grab a tambourine as much as I can.
Taylor Hanson
Hanson
We love a good, hyped sound, but when it starts to sound insincere, that's when I lose interest. I hope that our music, even if it sounds polished, doesn't sound insincere.
Nate Ruess
Fun.
In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.
Fernando Botero
If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.
Ian Hacking
Whenever I deliver a hit, I can see a glow on my father's face. Sometimes, I think he turns 10 to 15 years younger when I deliver a hit.
Mahesh Babu
There should be more women directing; I think there's just not the awareness that it's really possible.
Kathryn Bigelow
My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.
Kary Mullis
You think you have mastered it the wallpaper pattern, but just as you get well under way in following, it turns a back-somersault and there you are. It slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
You shouldn't go around the world behaving ruthlessly when you don't have to. Sometimes you do have to. There is only so much pie to go around. If you're going to take more than your fair share of pie, as socialists would look at it, then someone else is not getting his. That means you've got to take it away from them.
Felix Dennis
Every morning upon awakening, I experience a supreme pleasure: that of being Salvador Dali, and I ask myself, wonderstruck, what prodigious thing will he do today, this Salvador Dali.
Salvador Dali
As people of color, we're left out of history. History is sort of told around us. We're bystanders, we're passive, we're observers. We're never the center of our history.
Amma Asante
