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.
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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.
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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.
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I got a New York designer to build my dream store here, which is a little bit of Florence in New York. It's like the Duomo on Madison. I got inspired by Santa Maria Novella and all the Renaissance architecture.
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New York is such a versatile city, and there's always something new to discover.
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Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
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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.
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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.'
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Texas is a pretty free state.
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I grew up being a dancer, so I was always doing some sort of dance number, like the Tornado in 'The Wiz.'
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I really like just super dry comedy.
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Dance has definitely made me a better role model.When I'm performing, I'm always thinking about my face and my look. I used to have a much harder time with it.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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My friends in the TV news business are in a state of despair about Donald Trump, even as their bosses in the boardroom are giddy over what he's doing for their once sagging ratings.
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I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.
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The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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Marrakech in May is unseasonably tagine-hot.
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All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
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When I was singing Jamie's Cryin', people were going out of their mind because it was the first time they got to see Eddie, Michael and Alex play those songs. That was a thrill.
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I have some pretty forceful ideas about the world - obviously I do. But I suppose I can only really speak about them from within the protection of a literary form.
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On stage, I make love to 25,000 different people, then I go home alone.
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I know it sounds a bit corny, but I do think that beauty and sexiness come from within.
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The barrier was only in my mind - which is true of this barrier as well. The more firmly I try to cross the barrier, the more firmly I'm rejected. Well, maybe it's the intention to cross the boundary that pushes me away.
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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.
