LaTanya Richardson Quotes
Look at Michelle Obama. Everyone keeps making a big deal about her arms being exposed, but don't get it twisted: her arms are out for a reason. Black women have had those arms forever - lifting, picking cotton, toting and carrying babies.
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New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.
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I think chalking up human behavior to evil lets us all off the hook too easily.
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The great thing about baseball is there's a crisis every day.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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There is more to life than increasing its speed.
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In the 60s, if you wanted to be an actor, you couldn't do just one thing.
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Michael Jordan and Magic and myself all learned how to play the game in college programs that emphasized the team.
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What role should religion play in the American public school classroom? My own knee-jerk response would be, 'none whatsoever,' but the Constitution isn't quite so direct on the subject.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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I had what AA calls 'a convincer' – which made me realize that I couldn't do it any more. I went out drinking for about 70 hours here in London. At the end I knew I was done.
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I have a very 'theatre' face. I have what they call a wide mask. I probably would have been a big film star in the '20s with the silent films where they used a lot of key lighting, and make-up carved out your face.
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I went from a player who was never fit to a person who actually worked hard to get myself in shape.
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I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.
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I come from the small town of Sialkot in Pakistan. During pre-Partition, this town had the highest literacy rate among women.
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A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.
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Real riches are the riches possessed inside.
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Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now, by passing S. 1145, the U.S. Senate has a similar opportunity to restore our patent regime to its rightful position of protecting inventors' property rights and spurring innovation. These are values that all Americans should rally behind.
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I knew Childress was going to help me because my crew told me on the radio. I really appreciate what Richard did, but that is typical of people in this sport.
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It is always impossible to expect things getting done in 90 days.
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I hear all the time that boys don't like stories about girls. Which never made much sense to me. Wasn't 'Terminator' about a girl? And 'Alien'? Hell, I grew up on 'The Wizard of Oz.' People enjoy stories about anything if they're good stories.
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The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.
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If we don’t lift up women who play critical roles in movements, we fail to offer role models to future generations.
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Look at Michelle Obama. Everyone keeps making a big deal about her arms being exposed, but don't get it twisted: her arms are out for a reason. Black women have had those arms forever - lifting, picking cotton, toting and carrying babies.
