Nella Larsen Quotes
Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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When I write, I create really absurd situations which become false because I am after the joke.
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I'm superstitious... but not like wear the same underwear for two weeks superstitious.
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For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.
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I have always compared our traditions of liberty, like those of Abraham Lincoln and Ho Chi Minh.
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As professional soccer players, we take our bodies to the extreme. We're the people at the gym that look like we're breaking the machines. Pushing our bodies to the limits is what makes us so strong and capable and Olympians. It's not an easy thing to consistently do over and over again to your body.
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I started as an actor, then became a theater director. I loved acting but didn't feel as confident as I needed to be, so I started directing theater; then I played in some movies, and then I felt the need to do my own stuff.
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I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever 'completing a life' means.
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I love rehearsing; it's the best part of the job.
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Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.
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Jocks have completely taken over music... And just to get back at them, I’m going to start playing basketball.
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While most people... were seeking to modify the principles of either relativity or quantum theory, we surprised ourselves (and many other people) by succeeding in putting them together without modifying their principles.
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Through these fields of destructionBaptisms of fireI've witnessed your sufferingAs the battles raged higherAnd though they hurt me so badIn the fear and alarmYou did not desert meMy brothers in arms.
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They pass upon their old, tremulous feet,Creeping with little satchels down the street,And they remember, many years ago,Passing that way in silks. They wander, slowAnd solitary, through the city ways,And they alone remember those old daysMen have forgotten.
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Black and ugly as ever, however I stay Coogi down to the socks, rings and watch filled with Rocks.
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I just try and do the best with every role I get to do. Hopefully the experience in itself is a good experience and people will want to work with me.
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I didn't know how to write a novel, so I sort of let it happen in waves. The only way I could write it was to think like scenes in a movie.
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Don't forget that compared to a grownup person every baby is a genius. Think of the capacity to learn! The freshness, the temperament, the will of a baby a few months old!
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I think my story says that, when women are given the chance and the opportunity, that we can achieve a lot. We deliver.
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The mind, after being confined at home for a while, sends the imagination abroad in quest of new treasures; and the body may as well accompany it...
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I'd build a wall. In fact, I'd hire illegal immigrants to build the wall. And throw out the illegals who are here. … It's cheap labor.
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America is so caught up in this celebrity mania!
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Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it
