Anne Nicol Gaylor Quotes
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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I would like to do a period piece. I think that would be fun.
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I came into the rap game in 1992; my life was changing, but my group wasn't successful; I also saw the biggest rappers in the world die all of a sudden in the ensuing years, so it was a matter of conquering yourself before you can conquer the world.
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Like funny men, skilled diners are apparently perceived to have an evolutionary advantage.
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In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.
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And he was going to give me a song, because I'm a singer and I wanted to sing in everything.
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For six months I'd do movies and make it all about me. Then the other six months, it's not about me and it doesn't matter what my hair looks like or what anything looks like.
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Rather than disliking theatre, I've expressed a preference for television because it tends to deal in its small way much more with issues and is able to reach a broader church of people than theatre.
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Originality is unexplored territory. You get there by carrying a canoe - you can't take a taxi.
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After the first few readings in comedy venues I did begin to write for laughs. There's something so gratifying about stimulating laughter.
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Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination.
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Character is the ability to follow through on a resolution long after the emotion with which it was made has passed.
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There’s no doubt that there’s some folks who just really dislike me because they don’t like the idea of a black President.
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In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one.
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The voice of the Spirit is as gentle as a zephyr, so gentle that unless you are living in perfect communion with God, you never hear it.
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The things a man has to have are hope and confidence in himself against odds, and sometimes he needs somebody, his pal or his mother or his wife or God, to give him that confidence. He's got to have some inner standards worth fighting for or there won't be any way to bring him into conflict. And he must be ready to choose death before dishonor without making too much song and dance about it. That's all there is to it.
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You don't have to be a rock star - if you don't like the situation you're in, you don't have to settle for it.
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The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.
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Abortion is a blessing.
