Wilma Mankiller Quotes
A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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Joy is the simplest form of gratitude.
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Everyone has fond memories of 'The Carol Burnett Show' and the characters we did.
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We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.
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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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I really believe that when you're playing a character that everything is contained in the script. If I'm pulling from things from my own life, then I think I'm being disingenuous to the character and the story.
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I used to write bits and pieces of comedy material for various comics that were at the Windmill... as well as my film job, I was under contract, I was allowed to do that and everything.
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After the revolution, it might very well remain necessary to place people where they could not do harm to others. But the one under restraint should be cut off from the rest of society as little as possible.
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
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There was no religion in my life growing up. Did God invent us or did we invent God?
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I love doing every role I do!
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We don't want our players getting hurt.
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At the current $5.15 an hour, the federal minimum wage has become a poverty wage. A full-time worker with one child lives below the official poverty line.
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My parents are proud to be Canadian, as I am. They had a lot to do with my success and sacrificed a lot over the years.
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I would love to go to England.
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It's been a huge honor to collaborate and create new theatre with new writers and to create theatre that will last after my lifetime. It's been in the most truthful way possible. It's my favorite thing to do.
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A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they'd like to be chief. There's been a change in the limits people see.
