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.
Quotes to Explore
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Timidity does not inspire bold acts.
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I was a tomboy.
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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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When you do music concerts at Taj Mahal and the Acropolis, you have to be careful about your performance being appropriate with the place that surrounds you. It has to be appropriate to the culture - it should fit the building behind you, the environment you are playing it in and the culture of that place.
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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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One of the fun things about unreliable narrators is they can be funny. You can admire things about them and laugh with them.
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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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Life is very cyclical. And my career has been very-high-very-low, very-high-very-low, and I think it'll probably keep on rolling that way.
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You can go out and try to do the best work that you can do within the context of what that is, but it's really gotta be about the work and what you're focusing on.
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When I hear someone, instantaneously, I'm like, 'Who's singing?' You're giving people so much of yourself, and my voice is the most natural, distinctive tool I have. It's up to me to express myself on a wider scale than just writing vocal melodies and lyrics.
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Fashion's important to me, but beauty fades. All that stuff is fun while it lasts, but anything can happen tomorrow. You've got to have so much more about you than the way you look or your clothes.
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Mourning in America, Savage Love column, The Stranger, 15 November 2016
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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.
