Foxy Brown Quotes
I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
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I was very lucky when I started doing comedy because I hadn't seen much stand-up. I just got up on stage and did it without thinking.
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I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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What keeps me up at night is poverty and unemployment.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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All novels are about crime. You'd be hard pressed to find any novel that does not have an element of crime. I don't see myself as a crime novelist, but there are crimes in my books. That's the nature of storytelling, if you want to reflect the real world.
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People think that you can save calories by eating fewer meals a day, but it works just the opposite: the fewer meals you eat, the more counterproductive it becomes to you being able to lose weight.
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What we cannot deny is that there's an association between exclusion, segregation, non-violent extremist thinking, and jihadism.
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Nantucket was a Quaker-based culture, so they were not readers. There's a great Nantucket-based novel from the 19th century that Melville read for his research for 'Moby-Dick': 'Miriam Coffin' by Joseph Hart.
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Being multi-disciplined is always a good thing.
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I've been doing lots of trapeze, and so much of it is holding your own weight.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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An artist is attracted to certain kinds of form without knowing why. You adopt a position intuitively; only later do you attempt to rationalize or even justify it.
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When Liza Minelli was a child, she used to sit on my lap and call me Uncle Sammy.
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No man may make another free.
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I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
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I'm thrilled I got to work with James Ponsoldt, who is going to make his mark on this industry.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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My dad was a kind of semiprofessional Dixieland-type drummer, and I learned the drums from him. When I was about twelve, we bought our first Ludwig drum set from a pawnshop - a marching-band bass drum, great big tom-toms, and big, deep snare drums.
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
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Around me I saw women overworked and underpaid, doing men's work at half men's wages, not because their work was inferior, but because they were women.
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I'm a child of the Women's Movement. I always believed that I could do anything. That women didn't have to be limited in any way.
