Barbara O'Neal Quotes
Seems to me people are mean or evil because they're scared, mostly, or in pain, or afraid they're going to lose something.
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Inspired by Alex Haley's 'Roots,' at the age of 11 I began a handwritten Middle Passage story called 'Lawdy, Lawdy, Make Us Free.' I was raised by civil rights activists with a very strong sense of racial history and consciousness.
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
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I always wanted pink hair.
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I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
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But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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When I first did 'The Fast and the Furious', I didn't want there to be a sequel on the first one. I thought, 'Why would you rush to do a sequel - just because your first film is successful?'
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The best thing I've learned is that you have to listen to your body, and you have to be your own physician. Don't ignore those little groaning aches and pains.
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I was always running off to the city, whether it was Philly or New York, going somewhere where there was something more for me.
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I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible.
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Painting is a blind man's profession. He paints not what he sees, but what he feels, what he tells himself about what he has seen.
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Our visions are the plans of the possible life structure, but they will end in plans if we do not follow them up with a vigorous effort to make them real, just as the architect's plans will end in his drawings if they are not followed up and made real by the builder.
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In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
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Unite liberality with a just frugality; always reserve something for the hand of charity; and never let your door be closed to the voice of suffering humanity.
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I'm not the type to sit on the porch and watch life go by.
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When my agents tell me how much I'm going to be paid for a film, instead of quoting a figure, they'll say: 'You're going to make ten pairs of Christian Louboutins.'
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Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul.
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'Breaking Bad' - when I started watching that show, I thought it was terrific. I love the way it was shot. I love the writing. I love the arc of Bryan Cranston's character. I just thought that was just really, really a wonderful, wonderful show.
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So many forces and resources would become available if States, aware or conscious of their true or real mission, would want to get on or agree to abolish every politics aiming at ("visant à", Fr.) expansion or hegemony; system that maintain among nations a a perpetual distrust and tension, impose on them (or force or compel, "leur impose", Fr.) formidable armies and crushing war budgets.
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Pain is the most private experience, but its causes, whether natural or man-made, demand public accounting.
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The forces of violence and oppression don't care about the innocent.
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Seems to me people are mean or evil because they're scared, mostly, or in pain, or afraid they're going to lose something.
