O. Henry Quotes
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We all have these challenges and stereotypes that exist, but you can't let that hold you down... If that's the first thing you think about as a black woman - the challenge that lies ahead - you are thinking in the wrong direction, in my opinion.
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I love to walk into Borders or Barnes & Noble and see my books there. It's fabulous.
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I guess you could say I'm pretty wary.
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Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.
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Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.
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My father is a poet, my stepmother is a poet, and so I always had encouragement as a child to write.
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Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.
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I loved fairy tales as a kid, so that's where my mind gravitates.
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Some stories, my property, have been stolen. Someone's appropriated them. It's an illicit act. It's unfair. Suppose you had a coat you liked, and somebody went into your closet and stole it. That's how I feel.
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You don't always have to show art in what's called a white box; you can have a kind of complexity within an exhibit which actually respects the art as well.
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I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.
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When I played Robert Howard in 'The Whole Wide World', I was struggling with it. There's this dual thing where you feel real good about being able to play this juicy part, and then there's constant shame: 'Who am I to pretend to know who this guy was? Who am I to represent this guy for people who never knew him?'
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I think people have a misinterpretation of Method acting, because Method acting is a wonderful thing. The thing is, if you take it too seriously, it's like religion. You start to think it's the truth. But it's not the truth. It's just a way to get somewhere.
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
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You can't expect to make no effort. You still have to make the effort and be kind and understanding.
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If you stop one terror attack in the U.S., it may be connected to multiple other plots out there that are connected. If you reveal that you stopped one plot, it may tip our hand.
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The Kapoor surname has legend, a passion for acting, respect and love attached to it. And I am very proud of that.
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Things derive their being and nature by mutual dependence and are nothing in themselves.
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Sometimes I wake up, I feel like, I'm like 80-years-old.
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I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers.
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I don't like allegories.
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There was no blueprint or how-to manual for fixing a global financial meltdown, an auto crisis, two wars and a great recession, all at the same time.
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Write what you like; there is no other rule.
