Cecily McMillan Quotes
I would like to start a discussion about ending solitary confinement. I'd like to start a discussion about the removal of MO wings - an "MO" is a "Mental Observation" inmate - from Rikers Island, to be set up in mental health institutions. You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders.
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There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.
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There is always pressure in football.
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Randomness I love. And I still love just a holler right in the middle of an ongoing narrative. Pain or joy, ecstasy.
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I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
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Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.
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My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.
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I've been playing this game, fortunately for me, since I was three years old. That's one of the reasons why this game is so special to me.
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Life has changed enormously, and I hope - I hope more people read good things.
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I love music. I think it's a higher art form, in a way, than movies. You know, a film you see once, maybe twice. A song will follow you forever. It's a magical thing.
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I am not a movie star or a football player, I just do my thing.
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I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.
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You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.
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It was August 28th, 1963, and the greatest civil rights coalition in modern history had descended upon Washington. Hundreds of thousands of protesters trekked through the heat, stretching from the Washington Monument to the Lincoln Memorial.
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A scholar is committed to building on knowledge that others have gathered, correcting it, confirming it, enlarging it. But I have always wanted to think my own thoughts about a subject without being overly influenced by what others have thought before me.
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You start at SNL when you're young and hungry, but I don't want my pro years to be my SNL years.
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When I was supposed to go to a certified kindergarten that's supposed to teach you actual things like how to read, I went to a daycare that my parents thought was a kindergarten. I was Crayola-ing inside the lines with no fundamental education at all. So I walked into the first grade with no formal education at all.
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And shortly after that, when I try to get access to those soldiers, to ask them what in the world was going on, I was told that they did not work for me and I had no right to have access to any one of them.
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I want to have a record with Beyonce or Lady Gaga. They are both my inspirations. Especially Beyonce.
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It is a tremendous honor to be named poet laureate, but one that I find humbling as well, because it's the kind of thing that makes me feel like - even as it's been bestowed upon me - I must continue to live up to what it means... Being the younger laureate in the age of social media is a new challenge.
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Why, why are people all balls of bitter dust? Because they won't fall off the tree when they're ripe. They hang on to their old positions when the position is overpast, till they become infested with little worms and dry-rot.
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My clothes are built to show off the woman who wears them. I like them to be simple... to move well, to move with the times and a little ahead of the times.
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As an athlete, I understood the value of my health insurance. I knew that in my profession, injuries were common and could happen at any time.
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I would like to start a discussion about ending solitary confinement. I'd like to start a discussion about the removal of MO wings - an "MO" is a "Mental Observation" inmate - from Rikers Island, to be set up in mental health institutions. You can't put people in jail for having mental disorders.
