Adrienne Monique Jordan (Monique Coleman) Quotes
I love the idea that somebody is going to compare me to my character or think that I am like my character when they see me. I feel like that is a role that I am willing to fulfill.
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It's insane that people have these Internet identities. It has very little to do with who we really are. As a writer, who I'm friends with, how I spend my time, what I look like, what I wear, what I eat, what kind of music I like - it's totally not important to the work.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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The work environment on 'Battlestar Galactica' is unbelievable, and it's something that doesn't come along very often.
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Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
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Information is not just something you download from the Web. The way trees grow and where birds choose to live are much better signs of water quality than all the data being collected by the EPA.
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I am not antigovernment. I would not run a campaign against government.
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Our world is increasingly interdependent and pluralistic, and in order to ensure a civil future, we must get to know one another.
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I think a lot of theater actors that were great, like Walken or Glenn Close, later became film actors.
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Being uprooted from your own culture, provided you take with you the way of thinking and being that characterises the more integrated social culture from which you come, is not as disruptive to happiness and well-being as becoming part of a relatively fragmented culture.
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You can still wear trousers and show off your ankles - which are a nice body part on everyone.
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When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.
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I work mostly during the week, and on the weekend I get to hang out with friends, so it balances out pretty well.
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If I wrote in Jacob Riis' time, I'd be writing about teeming slums in our cities and kids dying of tuberculosis or outhouses in Philadelphia or kids losing their toes because they were living in homes without heat. He took on a battle in 'The Battle with the Slums' - and we won.
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I do earnestly wish to see the distinction of sex confounded in society, unless where love animates the behaviour.
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Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.
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All I ever wanted was to be a sexy bride, and actually, I think I've turned into a romantic bride.
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When I first read 'At Freddie's', I was struggling with my own writing, particularly with how to write about a sad subject - the death of a parent - without writing an entirely sad book.
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Our strength lies in our intensive attacks and our barbarity...After all, who today remembers the genocide of the Armenians?
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I did not have textual relations with that server.
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The genres are widening. I don't think that there's as many limitations on the kinds of projects that actors can do as there once was.
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I love the idea that somebody is going to compare me to my character or think that I am like my character when they see me. I feel like that is a role that I am willing to fulfill.
