Webbie (Webster Gradney, Jr) Quotes
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There's a critic that I love, Manohla Dargis of the 'L.A. Weekly.' I like the underground point of view; it's my old radical sympathies. Maybe I like her because she likes my movies.
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I'm the 1st black platinum artist in Detroit, solo artist in Detroit.
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Hollywood needs to recognise all shades of African American beauty.
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In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.
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That's the place we're in right now: we think we have the capability to get every piece of information, and we don't. We don't know what's going on behind the closed curtain. If we want to say we live in a free democratic society, we should be able to find out whatever we want to.
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We shall heal our wounds, collect our dead and continue fighting.
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My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.
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The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.
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If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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People want opportunity so they can earn security.
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When I got to college, I was intending to study film. But I found that my brain was feeling mushy, so I took a few math classes. I started doing really well at them, and solving equations was this, like, drug rush.
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Yes, the upper reaches of society are still dominated by men.
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Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.
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There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
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I'm a little untidy, and my favorite color is gray, and I'm always scurrying around in a panic.
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Becoming a grandmother brought me back to the things I forgot to love. Nature. Playing. Seeing animals. A new way of looking. A rejuvenation. A cycle of life - things come back to you. The details.
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The demands of the time for objectivity and functionality must be fulfilled. If that clearly happens, then the buildings of our day will convey the greatness of which the age is capable, and only a fool will maintain that they lack it.
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America creates myths by focusing a lot of energy on its history and using it - - not always, but sometimes - for constructive purposes.
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'Heroes' really changed the game for me in a way that nothing before it had.
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The world seems to belong to those who reach out and grab it with both hands. It belongs to those who do something rather than just wish and hope and plan and pray, and intend to do something someday, when everything is just right.
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Just pray and God gone make a way
