Carolyn Custis James Quotes
Everything. She lives with a profound confidence that he holds the whole world (including her) in his hands.
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I came from the theater playing leading roles, and when I started doing film and television, I felt as if I had to start from the bottom.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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As his talent expands, some of his stories become pointed social commentary; some are surprisingly effective religious tracts, disguised as science fiction. Others still are nostalgic vignettes, but under it all is still Bradbury, the poet of 20th-century neurosis.
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I don't want to mess with my face. So I'm becoming fluent in French so I can go to France and make French films when I'm 60.
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I still have a young attitude.
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We younger Negro artists who create now intend to express our individual dark-skinned selves without fear or shame. If white people are pleased, we are glad. If they are not, it doesn't matter. We know we are beautiful. And ugly too.
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I loved to sing in family parties, for my friends and family. That's how I discovered my talent.
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Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
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For the stage displays the first vigorous expression, as the natural thing and without conspicuous restraint, of private individuality.
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In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.
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Going out for rides with my friends and having lunch or dinner at a roadside hotel - that's my favourite time-pass.
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.
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Why not pool your resources? And so we broke into the concept of the sacredness of private property.
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Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.
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A manufacturing resurgence is what will give local communities and small towns across America a fighting chance for survival. Many of today's American entrepreneurs come from those very places but make their wealth elsewhere. We need to change that.
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You can play older than yourself. You can play younger than yourself up to a point, and then that just becomes impossible because you carry a weight with you that you can't shift, unless you have very boyish looks.
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Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.
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To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them.
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Everything. She lives with a profound confidence that he holds the whole world (including her) in his hands.
