Camille A. Brown Quotes
I think cultural appropriation has been an issue since the beginning of time and I think it's so important for us to tell our own stories and tell them the way we know how they're supposed to be told but also giving each other the exposure and access in order to do that.
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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My sin as a painter is that I just want to paint anything I want to paint - and repaint.
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I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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With only 2 percent of the world's proven reserves of oil, we in the United States can pump until we are blue in the face and it will not change the fact that we need more diverse and more secure sources of energy.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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I care so passionately about improving the quality of life for women and girls, not just here in the United States, but internationally as well. I am a single mom and I raised a daughter who is now a young adult.
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Detroit is beautiful - though you probably have to be a child of the industrial Midwest, like me, to see it.
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When I first moved to New York, all I did was musical theater. That's what I studied at Carnegie Mellon University.
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You can spend your whole life planning. But once you're ready, get out there and start doing it.
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I love reading almost as much as I love writing.
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The reason Wilde did his best work after turning homosexual is that women simply reinforced his own feminine sentimentality. … Heterosexuality inhibited his imagination because woman is physically and psychologically internal.
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Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
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It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.
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'Fast And Furious 7' was quite random. I remember that it was the first holiday that I took in the entire year. I was in Mussoorie for two days with my friends when I got a call from my international PRs asking me to audition for 'Fast And Furious 7.'
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I very seldom compromise. I am a Capricorn.
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Mum snuck me into speech and drama classes and into the National Youth Theatre and said I was going on a summer camp if Dad asked.
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One cat just leads to another. The place is so damned big it doesn't really seem as though there were many cats until you see them all moving like a mass migration at feeding time.
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It feels much better to me to think that an artist is working to show his appreciation of what already has been created than creating things himself.
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I really didn't say everything I said. ... Then again, I might have said 'em, but you never know.
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The finest workers in stone are not copper or steel tools, but the gentle touches of air and water working at their leisure with a liberal allowance of time.
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Swedish people live for the summer - it transforms everyone. I don't want to miss having a Swedish summer vacation for as long as I live. It's my favorite thing in the world.
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I think cultural appropriation has been an issue since the beginning of time and I think it's so important for us to tell our own stories and tell them the way we know how they're supposed to be told but also giving each other the exposure and access in order to do that.
