Robert Fitzgerald Diggs Quotes
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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It's not just the actor in front of the camera. And it's important to have respect for all those people that work behind the camera.
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My mother is an ordained minister. I'm a Muslim. She didn't do back flips when I called her to tell her I converted 17 years ago. But I tell you now, you put things to the side, and I'm able to see her, and she's able to see me. We love each other. The love has grown.
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In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.
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I don't have a great instrument. I don't have the kind of ungodly control over my voice and body that great actors have. And I've worked with enough great actors to know that I'm not one.
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The difference between brown and white rice is that the former is not milled. With the outer bran and germ intact, the rice is therefore chewier and nuttier.
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At Pixar, we do a million versions of the movie, and every one of them goes through their awkward teenage phase where it's terrible and doesn't make sense, and we just keep working on it.
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In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.
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Despotism is a long crime.
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I grew up watching Steven Spielberg and scary movies.
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My manager and I were broke for about three years together. That was the worst time of our lives and the best time of our lives. You have nothing, and it also is this great blank canvas of how to be inspired and how to dream up your whole life out of nothing.
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I suppose I didn't cry in all the cancer crap stuff because I felt I couldn't lose the battle, and part of the battle was holding myself together.
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It's always great to visit Taranaki; it's beautiful, and I've caught some great waves there.
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In France, a first lady has no status, and therefore she isn't supposed to do anything else.
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By the age of nine or ten, I knew that I loved history and writing. It got hold of me and never turned loose.
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Man reaches the highest point of lovableness at 12 to 17 - to get it back, in a second flowering, at the age of 70 to 90.
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Oh, Bertie, if I ever called you a brainless poop who ought to be given a scholarship at some lunatic asylum, I take back the words.
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What the learned world tends to offer is one second-hand scrap of information illustrating ideas derived from another second-hand scrap of information. The second-handedness of the learned world is the secret of its mediocrity.
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You know, you hear about these writers reading 'Lolita' at 12. I wanted to be a chemistry teacher.
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The first World War in so many ways shaped the 20th century and really remade our world for the worse.
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A dialogue of respect is the rock-bed of all societies. Attacking and excluding others, insulting other peoples and their faith and convictions - this is no way forward. The future lies in unity and respect, not division and stereotypes.
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Being a foreigner is not a disease.
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I'd rather be done any thing to than laughed at, for, to my mind, it's one or other the disagreeablest thing in the world.
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You get nothing but the truth from me.
