Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes
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I have never sought the reason why I write.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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Straight couples don't have to be monogamous to be married or married to be monogamous. Monogamy no more defines marriage than the presence of children does. Monogamy isn't compulsory and its absence doesn't invalidate a marriage.
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'Cause when I had my child, people tried to make me feel like life was over for me, and I started to believe that.
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In our beginnings, Fantin, Whistler and I were all on the same road, the road from Holland Dutch 17th century painters
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That sense of failure, I don't know where people put it who don't write songs and aren't able to emote physically. It must go somewhere.
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We'll continue to invest in new technology because we think every woman should have the ability to be connected through her beauty knowledge, opinions, products, and routine.
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Arcade Fire seems to be doing very well; certainly, Phoenix is doing very well.
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I don't want the IRS banging down my door.
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In the late 1980s, a new revolt broke out, this time led by the fundamentalist FIS (Islamic Salvation Front). Many of its leaders were the kind of young Algerians who joined the struggle against the French occupiers in the 1950s.
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You can't build a revolution with no education. Jomo Kenyatta did this in Africa, and because the people were not educated, he became as much an oppressor as the people he overthrew.
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I always find with dramas that the more that's left to the imagination of the audience, the better.
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We're all funny. Humor unites us.
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My mother's father was Jewish, so she was very conservative. She liked little, pretty music-orchestral-type things.
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The super awesomeness would be a portable teleportation machine that I could take with me. I go wherever I want, and then I can go from there to wherever I want. Instantly. Without having to go through TSA. One can wish.
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I'm not a big method actor. I'm much more superficial.
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Years ago, I worked in a newspaper office, and there were men that would have fits of temper, and it was just accepted that that's who they were, and everyone would laugh about it, but if a woman got upset or angry, something wasn't right: she was 'hysterical' or 'a little unhinged.' It didn't have the same sort of connotation at all.
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Sometimes I feel the only way I can get a major publisher interested in mental illness is if I find a character who has bipolar disorder and is also a love-sick vampire attending an English school called Hogwarts. But I'm not giving up.
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That's my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a duck's back. If it's not positive, I didn't hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy.
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Nothing recedes like progress.
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It's an incredible dilemma to be an artist of color and to always be in denial about that, saying, 'I'm a choreographer first and then I'm black,' when in fact, that's not the case. I'm black first and then I'm also a choreographer.
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I like to be entertained, not smothered with 'literary' riddles.
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I basically never believed that I was a commercial actor. Just because of the outcome of many auditions over time. No one hired me.
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I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.
