Regina King Quotes
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If I could work with Joan Van Ark every day for the rest of my life I would.
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Like brown rice, black rice is unmilled, and it is the dark outer husk that makes it so nutty and chewy. It's also why it takes longer to cook than many other rices.
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If you behave normally, people treat you normally. It's only when you act as if you're someone special that they feel obliged to stand on ceremony.
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It is the original idea that is unique, not the object itself.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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From the moment I walked into the White House, it was as if I had no privacy at all.
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When people are in love, I don't see anything wrong with it in the world. If they choose to live their lives and get married, why should we interfere? A lot of people don't agree with me, but that's how I feel.
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A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, 'Just call my name to see where I am,' because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.
Gail Devers
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It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
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Qualifying for the Olympics is probably harder than winning a medal at the Olympics.
Mandy Bujold -
The emotional stuff is the biggest challenge, for me to access that. As life passes, you encounter difficulties and tragedies, and so it becomes easier. 'Carnivale' required that of me, and it was really hard.
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If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to 'dissolve' harmful simplifications through inquiry and the critical mind.
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Everybody wants to solve everybody's problems.
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Strength without agility is a mere mass.
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Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectifications of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.
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I have three cows, and I'm looking forward to more in the future, so I'll have a little herd.
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People think that just because you're a center, you're not as smart as the guards or the smaller guys.
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We're in a kind of vicious cycle where the media tell the politicians, and the politicians tell the people, that perception is reality, and the perception of saving dooms a politician. I don't believe perception is reality, or that all Americans think that.
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War is hell. Hollywood fantasizes about it and makes it look good... war sucks.
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People love to see themselves on screen in a way that makes sense and seems on point.
