Amma Asante Quotes
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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All performances are different. I don't think it's necessary to compare one with another. I am just me playing the role of Lear. You're bound to get a Holm approach to it, whatever that may be. I just got out there and did it. I'm very much a doer in my acting.
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I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.
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He was so excited. He cut out pictures of these landscapes and neighborhoods and kind of really tried to give you a feel of the movie. It was kind of cute but at the same time it really showed his enthusiasm for it.
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So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different.
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Univision is the only network where you pay for more, not for less.
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I'm here today because I refused to be unhappy. I took a chance.
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If you want to go beyond that small percentage of people who are already environmentally and scientifically aware, you have to make your work somehow link with a passion, interest, or profession of someone who isn't interested in science or nature.
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I am expressing myself truthfully. That is an important thing.
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Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.
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The way I see it, you should live everyday like its your birthday.
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I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'
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From a monarchy followed by suffering under Communism, Ethiopians must be given the opportunity to flourish under the greatest of systems - democracy.
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We were playing a small club in San Diego and the power had gone out in the building. Eddie had a lighter and kept us lit backstage. We became very good friends and spent a lot of time together including hearing Eddie sing in some of the bands he was in at the time.
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I fully support U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in his Global Education First Initiative and the work of U.N. Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown and the respectful president of the U.N. General Assembly Vuk Jeremic. I thank them for the leadership they continue to give.
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You typically find stereotypical female characters that are people pleasers, where they are wives and girlfriends, typically, who are in the background.
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As for hobbies, people with stimulating hobbies suffer from the most noxious of despairs since they are tranquilized in their despair.
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Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free.
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You can't legislate good will - that comes through education.
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Look not to have your sepulchre built in after ages hy the same foolish hands which still ever destroy the living prophet. Small honour for you if they do build it; and may be they never will build it.
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The drummer is stereotypically the dumb guy. Maybe that's why I always respect drummers who do more than drum.
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The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.
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I think I got from my father and my mother a sense of morality, of the do's and don't's in society; the notion that good people don't do this; good people are responsible, good people participate in community, and good people vote, good people own land. These were things I heard from my father's pulpit.
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Don't let a culture or society's rules define who you are; you define who you are.