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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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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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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It sounds trite to go after men who are nice but when you've been hurt a lot it becomes appealing.
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Oil wells never really run dry. A big company will drain maybe 40% of a field. Pulling out the rest of the oil, which requires an outlay of incrementally more cash per barrel, often proves uneconomical for big companies with big overheads.
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Scent is very important. Strong fragrances suit some men, while citrus types suit others. I like my men to smell fresh and woody, but also like a man.
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My job is to stay alive until the medicine and research catch up.
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At the national level, I don't know how to describe a threat to destroy Country A in order to punish Country B other than to call it state terrorism.
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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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.
