Ayana Mathis Quotes
There's a stereotype that to be a strong black woman is to be strong about being black.
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For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
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I used to trip over my legs and get detention for my too-short shorts because none fit. I still trip, but now I like to show them off.
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The Islamist ideology took decades to incubate within our communities, and it will take decades to debunk.
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Of all Iraq's rocket scientists, none drew warier scrutiny abroad than Modher Sadeq-Saba Tamimi.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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It really comes down to being able to inspire others by being comfortable with yourself. You have to show girls that everyone is different; everyone has things they don't like, but they work it and walk the runway.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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In the end, crime doesn't pay.
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September 11 stands on its own as a terrible tragedy.
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I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
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I'm looking forward to writing more novels for young adults.
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It wasn't easy getting 'GoodFellas' started.
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All the Junos, the Grammy nominations, the gold and platinum records, did nothing to assuage my conviction that I was an out-and-out loser.
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What made me move up to welterweight was all the effort I was doing, to look at my health and have a good life. I wanted to stop sacrificing so much.
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There are many more serial killers living outside the prison walls than inside.
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You give the guy an Image Award three years in a row and then turn on him like that? If that's the role they want to fulfill, they need to send a clearer message.
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The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
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I think it's important to keep things private, and there are certain boundaries I feel very particular about drawing. It may seem fastidious, but my experience of talking to the press is that I need those boundaries to remain very clear.
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I'd like to transform the system in very fundamental ways, but you've got to do that in every way that you can. You can't wait for some magic bullet or some magic politician or some magic anything to have that happen. You got to get out there and use your vote.
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Paddy Ashdown: ...this is an agreement which the right hon. Lady will be entitled to regard with a certain pride and satisfaction as she looks back on the twilight days of her premiership...
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People often ask me why I sing with a strong Irish accent. I suppose when I was five years old, I spoke with a strong Irish accent, so I sang with one, too.
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There's a stereotype that to be a strong black woman is to be strong about being black.
