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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I accept the fact that some things dont go the way you hope.
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There will be no silence from Canada. Our friendship has no limit. Generation after generation we have traveled many difficult miles together side by side.
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I'm always running my mouth off and getting myself in trouble, so I'm trying to do it less.
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We translated the script together with them. And during the process of translation, they rewrote the scripts. They put a lot into it. They made it their own. There are names of plants or chants or certain rites and everything that you cannot come across it in a movie. You know, you cannot learn about them casually. So the film doesn't have value in the ethnographical, anthropological. It's fiction.
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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.
