Whoopi Goldberg (Caryn Elaine Johnson) Quotes
When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.
Quotes to Explore
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If you put up a blog, people can cut out the middle man and get material to you. Which is really helpful because a lot of time there's really cool stuff out there that we just don't see. Because, y'know, the agent is acting in our best interest, but it does sometimes prevent some of the good stuff from getting through.
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All of life is a foreign country.
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The process of reclaiming the self is one of reconciliation with meaning.
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'Moonlight' is a project that resonated with me more than anything else. I wouldn't have done 'Luke Cage' if they hadn't made time for 'Moonlight.'
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Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'
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I'm hoping I'll eventually get to be a beauty blogger myself because I do my own makeup, and I have for years.
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I remember being in strong physics, physiology and biology classes.
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It's always hard to deal with injuries mentally, but I like to think about it as a new beginning. I can't change what happened, so the focus needs to go toward healing and coming back stronger than before.
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If you go back to any period in India's history, all the hard decisions this country had to take were taken when the Congress was in power.
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I think part of that is to create an environment where it's like real life, where you don't really know what's going to happen to you in a certain scene.
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As I wrote I began to see more strongly that there were inescapable analogies. You couldn't really live through the '80s without feeling how crass and distasteful some of the economic doctrines were. The slave trade is a perfect model for that kind of total devotion to the profit motive without reckoning the human consequences.
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Though I love the luxury of the Waldorf Towers, room service there doesn't do soul food.
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Sometimes, I feel like I spent the first part of my life wishing to be a teen-age boy, and the second part condemned to being one.
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Letting someone down is not criminal action.
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I would like to spend my next two years showing how the aim of making technology available to every young person can be built into the effort to make our nation more secure. That is my latest concern and what I will be pushing over the next two years.
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As a writer, I have to admit, there is something darkly compelling about Alzheimer's because it attacks the two things most central to a writer's craft - language and memory, which together make up an individual's identity. Alzheimer's makes a new character out of a familiar person.
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I like poems that are complex.
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Literature isn't a moral beauty contest. Its power arises from the authority and audacity with which the impersonation is pulled off; the belief it inspires is what counts.
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When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
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To join a great club is nice and all, but you have to play the games.
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I am worth some study, if for no one else but myself. I hope that you feel likewise... even if only about yourself.
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I love Frances McDormand so much. I love her career. And I think it's fun because she gets to do comedy as well as drama.
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When I was doing ensemble theater and comedy work, I felt I had some talents. But when I started doing my shows in Berkeley and found that I could be funny on my own, I was shocked.
