Dana Spiotta Quotes
Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.
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I lived in America for a long time before I started working as an actor. Some actors show up on set and have never done an American accent before, so they rely on a slew of technical mechanisms. Part of what makes an accent is understanding why people speak that way - you have to understand the culture.
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I'm not a writer; I'm an actor. My job is to take whatever character I'm given and - especially because I have the responsibility of being a black actress, and I know young black girls are looking up, and everyone's looking to what's on television - to just try to give whatever character I'm playing as three-dimensional a portrayal as I can.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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The Enlightenment, the Age of Reason, is seen as the beginning of modern depravity.
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There are a lot of female directors in documentary, very talented. But it's always lower budget.
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You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.
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With a warm drink, in a rocking chair and family and friends around, I am working on finding peace and joy in the moments we have been given. It doesn't have to all make sense. I don't have all the answers.
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Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute.
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When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.
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The crisis of black politics can only be resolved through the development of multiclass, multiracial, progressive political structures.
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I'm not going to be a ten or twelve grand-slam winner. It's not going to happen.
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Acting is the ability to dream on cue.
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He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.
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I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.
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This person they make me out to be irritates the hell out of me as well.
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You can hit as many revolutions as you want, but women are always going to wear uncomfortable shoes that look good.
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In 2005 in Iraq, the constitution was written. A new government was elected. That government was trying to take office in 2006.
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I will never sell Flipkart.
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In the John Paul II days, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger had the advantage of staying in his cupboard - the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith - exchanging views only with the Pope, and speaking publicly only through carefully written missives on doctrinal issues.
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I did everything. I ran my life exactly as I wanted to, all the time. I never listened to anybody. I'm pig-headed.
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My first week at 'DWTS' was amazing! I definitely fangirled when I walked into the ballroom because I looked at all the judges and where they were sitting, and I was like, 'Wow, that's the official judges' table!'
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I'd love for mental illness to be seen in the way that other horrible illnesses are. When people get cancer, very few parents will say, 'Oh I feel so bad for giving you so much unhealthy food over the years.'
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Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.
