D. B. Sweeney Quotes
I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
D. B. Sweeney
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I'm from a very close-knit family, and there was something very... I guess you could say normal, about it, and I so appreciate that. We all ate dinner together every single night, and my mom stayed at home with us. I owe a lot to my parents.
Rachel McAdams
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I'm not religious. I was as a child, and like lots of people, I suppose, rapidly became very disillusioned with the whole thing. I also feel that organised religion has caused far more problems than it has solved.
Natascha McElhone
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New York is such a versatile city, and there's always something new to discover.
Abbey Lee Kershaw
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan
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Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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After high school, I went to the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point for a year, and I studied musical theatre. By that point, I was like, 'This is what I want to do.'
Laura Osnes
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I sailed through my childhood with a complete lack of any drama.
Kate Adie
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Even though I enjoy that head-to-head competition part, one of the things that drove me to long track was if I won or if I lost I want to know it's all on my shoulders and it didn't have anything to do with anybody else.
Bonnie Blair
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I read everything, but particularly, growing up in a household where my mom was black and my dad was white, I remember really loving 'Ebony' and 'Essence.' Those magazines were the only place where I could see images of women who looked like me or my mom.
Elaine Welteroth
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My private tragedy, which cannot, and indeed should not, be anybody's concern, is that I had to abandon my natural idiom, my untrammeled, rich, and infinitely docile Russian tongue for a second-rate brand of English, devoid of any of those apparatuses–the baffling mirror, the black velvet backdrop, the implied associations and traditions–which the native illusionist, frac-tails flying, can magically use to transcend the heritage in his own way.
Vladimir Nabokov
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To some extent, Rwanda became a victim of the Somalia experience.
Kofi Annan
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I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
D. B. Sweeney
