Barbara Crampton Quotes
There was a period in my late 30s where work slowed down for me, as it does for a lot of women. You're no longer the young, cute thing anymore and maybe you're not quite old enough to play (what others think of) in terms of women in charge.
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The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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I think all politicians lie.
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We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
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I wanted to identify that the black experience is American experience.
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I was into punk rock back when I was in high school. I used to go around to dive venues and take photographs. But now it's been just much more about the country stuff and soulful folk.
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The secrets of slavery are concealed like those of the Inquisition.
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People in their 70s can still have incredible lives. Health is the most important thing.
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I do think one should have clean feet.
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I'm thought to be a tough writer, but I'm really a softie.
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To have so many years in the rap industry and so many number one songs, and sold so many millions of records, introduced the world to people like Cool & Dre, DJ Khaled, Pitbull, Rick Ross, Trick Daddy, Remy Ma, Big Pun, Rico Love... I could go on and on. Having been able to influence the rap game for so long is very important to me.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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Germany is determined to provide substantial help. So are the Netherlands and other states. But a day will come when we have to count on our own resources.
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Mo Yan is the Chinese equivalent of the Soviet Russian apparatchik writer Mikhail Sholokhov: a patsy of the regime.
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I'm not big on remakes.
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I don't compose, actually. I just record. I'm the opposite of a composer in my way of working. I'm more instinctive.
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A poet is a man who manages, in a lifetime of standing out in thunderstorms, to be struck by lightning five or six times.
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The minute you hesitate you are in trouble.
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I had holes in my jeans well before it was fashionable.
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I always approach every play based on the cast. When Denzel and I did 'Fences,' I didn't go to rehearsals and say, 'OK, James Earl Jones did a wonderful job in '87. Let me see if you can come close to James Earl Jones.'
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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There was a period in my late 30s where work slowed down for me, as it does for a lot of women. You're no longer the young, cute thing anymore and maybe you're not quite old enough to play (what others think of) in terms of women in charge.
