Retta (Marietta Sangai Sirleaf) Quotes
When I started, it was all meter maids or the sassy nurse, or the sassy receptionist in the hospital. And I felt like: Are those the only jobs that large, black women have?
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I started as a teenager going up on commercials.
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I did a sitcom with Desi Arnaz Jr. in a pilot called 'Whacked Out.' We were bombing, and Lucille Ball grabbed the mic and started berating the audience.
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In hospital, people should be able to have time to themselves.
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I started at Pixar the month 'Monsters Inc.' came out.
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My mum was a nurse, and her passion was geriatric care. I used to love listening to the old people's stories in her nursing home and picturing myself in their place. They'd say, 'I went to school in a horse and cart,' and I'd just think 'Wow!' I'd picture myself in their place - acting was a natural progression.
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Both of my parents had a change of career. My mum was a nurse, and now she's a college lecturer.
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Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch, but should I fall ill during my travels, a hospital there could not access my medical records or know what medications I am on.
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Hip-hop was started on groups.
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Up until I started on YouTube, my first love was musical theater.
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I started playing the trumpet when I was about eight.
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When I initially started acting, all I wanted to do was to be in one movie. That's it. That was my goal.
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I started modeling when I was 13 or 14, I think.
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I started out as a novelist and wrote several novels before deciding to publish one, and I fully intend to go back to the form.
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I started rapping when I was about 12 or 13, just playing around with it.
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The nurse is the nightTo wake to, to die in: and the day I live,The world and its life are her dreams.
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O Caledonia! stern and wild,Meet nurse for a poetic child!Land of brown heath and shaggy wood,Land of the mountain and the flood!
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The same parents can raise a dreamy, reflective girl and a driven, competitive one-the job is not to nurse her nature but to help elicit the essential opposite: to help the dreamy one to be a little more driven, the competitive one to be a little more reflective. The one artisanal, teachable thing is outer conduct.
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Believe me, nurse, the difficulty of beginning will be nothing to the difficulty of knowing how to stop. At least that's the way it is with me when I have to make a speech. Someone's got to catch hold of my coat-tails and pull me down by main force.
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It is your passion that empowers you to be able to do that thing you were created to do.
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'What is your favorite book?'
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So great is the effect of cleanliness upon man, that it extends even to his moral character. Virtue never dwelt long with filth; nor do I believe there ever was a person scrupulously: attentive to cleanliness, who was a consummate villain.
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I never had intention of coming to New York or L.A. and actually doing more than scraping by - you know, doing plays. And as my career sort of progressed of its own volition, I did come to New York.
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When I started, it was all meter maids or the sassy nurse, or the sassy receptionist in the hospital. And I felt like: Are those the only jobs that large, black women have?
