LaTanya Richardson Quotes
I didn't want my daughter brought up by nannies, and I didn't want her to feel I wasn't around.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
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One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, you should always buy something to treat yourself to say well done for getting the job! However I've not followed on that through yet... I've always wanted a tattoo, something to mark my experience.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.
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I wouldn't just have other people write songs and me go out and sing it. I would sit down with a guitar and write 11 or 12 good songs for an album and that is gonna take a long time.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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All the time I was writing hit songs with my partner David Porter, I always had the yen to perform. Sure did. And when the opportunity came, I took it. The first album, 'Presenting Isaac Hayes,' didn't do so hot, but it was like a prelude for what was to come.
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When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise.
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The most successful Subway customers, of course, are the ones who can't keep their hands off their sandwich. Join your artist in the sandwich assembling process. That sneeze guard is a suggestion. That sneeze guard is trying to intimidate you into staying on the customer's side of the partition.
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I've never worn fur, either. I'm a naturally squeamish person, and fur smells like dead animal to me.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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I don't believe in writer's block.
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The only way a kid is going to practice is if it's total fun for him... and it was for me.
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Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.
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I'm in favor of immigration but we also need rules.
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Pretty women and rich men are rarely wrong.
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My holy grail is fusion energy. Nuclear fusion has little to no radioactive waste. It's clean. It's very abundant. The fuels are everywhere. There are problems with fusion.
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For all I know, I am beginning with the ending. My page one can wind up a year later as page two hundred, if it's still even around.
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I didn't want my daughter brought up by nannies, and I didn't want her to feel I wasn't around.
