Adrienne Monique Jordan (Monique Coleman) Quotes
I really understand the idea of pride and honour. I have that in my family, so I understand it completely.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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I know girlfriends of mine who, when they were approaching pregnancy and starting a family, consistently went through a period right beforehand that was a last gasp kind of thing where they just wreak havoc. They fall apart, in a profound way, because there's some awareness that that's the last time they can do that for awhile.
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When I graduated college, I had a fairly successful weekly club gig and was buying more studio equipment and writing my own music. I realized I didn't want to work.
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I guess it was but I think peoples morality has changed. It's gotten more liberal and more diverse and even in a sense much more fundamental, you take the fundamental religious right in this country, its got to go back about 50 years.
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I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror.
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I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.
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All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.
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I ask the rights to pursue happiness by having a voice in that government to which I am accountable.
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Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
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To look is one thing, to see is another thing; to see is very difficult, normally; to look is to try to see. I have looked and I hope I have seen.
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Most people don't even get to be on TV, so I got to be on TV a bunch of times... I feel so lucky that I get to go back and forth between television and theater.
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Don't go in and tell somebody else how to run their business.
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Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.
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Paper Moon didn't bring me love.
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The older you get the stronger the wind gets and it's always in your face.
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As an African-American, we stand on the shoulders of people who fought despite not seeing victories in their lifetime or even in their children's lifetime or even in their grandchildren's lifetime. So fatalism isn't really an option.
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Some people have theorized that I lurched to prove myself intellectually. But it was not any lurch. It was more a kind of awakening.
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I think I made this decision that I just loved making music, and it didn't matter what level I got to do it on, and 'Fight Song' was this declaration that I'm going to keep going, and I'm going to keep believing in myself, even if it seems like it's impossible.
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Without solid connections between homicides, we may have the reverse problem of believing three local murders are the work of one serial killer when they may actually be the work of three!
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Everyone in L.A. loves sushi, and I don't understand it at all.
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The failure of modern evangelicalism is the failure to understand the holiness of God.
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To understand the world one must not be worrying about one's self.
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I really understand the idea of pride and honour. I have that in my family, so I understand it completely.
