Assata Shakur Quotes
People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.
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I've always believed in experiencing everything in life. When you walk out with blinders on, you cut yourself off from the angels and the fairies.
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You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
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In short, we lose the freshness and spontaneity of true conversation. These are areas in which everyone interested in self-improvement will seek to improve.
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I follow my nose. It’s as simple as that.
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Believe that time is going to help you do what you want.
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The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs.
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When I successfully bring the Mamas & the Papas movie to fruition, I hope that people will say, 'She's also a producer.'
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Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we're just another robber tribe.
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It would be creepy if you knew my home address.
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The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice; but the carnal weakness of this prey that man takes and its ominous deterioration always have to be hidden from him...In any case, the more traits and proportions of a woman seem contrived, the more she delighted the heart of man because she seemed to escape the metamorphosis of natural things. The result is this strange paradox that by desiring to grasp nature, but transfigured, in woman, man destines her to artifice.
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Too often, the person who wrecks our work is us.
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Compliment is taken literally only by the savage. The accuracy of compliment is not that of algebra.
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'Twin Peaks' was incredibly slow, methodic, taking shots that were uncomfortably long, with a lot of scenes where there was barely any dialogue. 'Riverdale' has a much faster pace.
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If the audience is made to do not enough work, they resent it without knowing it. Too much and they get lost. There's a perfect pace to be found. And a perfect place that is different for every line of the play.
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I don't want to be an actor, but why not take these opportunities when they come to you? I'm not killing myself auditioning, chasing that dream.
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A cleric who loses his faith abandons his calling; a philosopher who loses his redefines his subject.
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People are tried and convicted in the newspapers and on television before they ever see a courtroom.
