Brooklyn Sudano Quotes

I always considered myself bi-racial, because I didn't want to disconnect from either side, and I felt very strongly about that. Now, I understand that the world sees me as a black woman, a person of color, and I'm okay with that.

Brooklyn Sudano

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• Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Experience
  • Intellect
  • Dogma

• I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Me
  • Movies
  • Hindsight

• I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • People
  • Fun
  • Serious

• I'm an honest, open father.

  

  T.I.
  • Father
  • Honest
  • Open

• The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • People
  • Poor
  • Crime

• I should confess that I'm woefully under-read in South African fiction.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Should
  • Fiction
  • African

• In 2001, I moved from Philly to Atlanta, where I lived for six years. I had never lived anywhere but Philly, and you can imagine the culture shock; the Civil War seeps into daily life and conversation down South in a way it never does up North.

  

  Karen Abbott
  • Life
  • Up
  • War

• 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.

  

  Fernando Botero
  • Why
  • You
  • Artist

• I think a lot of us feel the need to always be connected, and finding time to relax and sometimes play is something that I think we all need to make more time for, especially me.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
  • Time
  • Me
  • Play

• Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Rock

• The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.

  

  Victoria Hanley
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Inspiration

• Life is fleeting, and permanence in this world is something we all strive for. The best way to achieve permanence is through philanthropy.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Life
  • World
  • Best

• Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Work
  • Dream
  • Always

• When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • Work
  • Great
  • You

• The greatest gift God has given me is the capacity of love for people. I have so many faults, but caring about people is not one of them.

  

  Barbara Mandrell
  • People
  • God
  • Gift

• People in misery is what most important in art.

  

  Zhang Yimou
  • People
  • Important
  • Art

• I've worked on shows where the lead actor doesn't know their lines, doesn't care, and it affects everybody - the crew, the director, the other actors. It's definitely a responsibility.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Know
  • Responsibility
  • Care

• The fight scenes are pretty easy and come pretty naturally for me, to be honest.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Pretty
  • Fight
  • Honest

• I grew up in Chelsea on 22nd Street... I am really a native New Yorker.

  

  Matt McGorry
  • Up

• If you fear something, walk into it.

  

  Bette Ford
  • Fear
  • Walk

• I hate flatscreens. I don't want to see anything in that much pixilation. I don't need to see the pimple on someone's face. I love the world through glass. The more old, dusty and tainted that glass is, the prettier and more impressionistic that is to me. I don't need to see everything perfectly. I don't like it.

  

  Drew Barrymore
  • World
  • Hate

• One might feel that, at my age, I should look on life with more gravity. After all, I've been privileged to listen, firsthand, tosome of the most profound thinkers of my daywho were all beset by gloom over the condition the world had gotten into. Then why can't I view it with anything but amusement?

  

  Anita Loos
  • Life
  • World
  • Thinking

• Mythology can be used, and has been used, even to re-state, you know, the very urgent problems of the world.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • World
  • Problem
  • Mythology

• I always considered myself bi-racial, because I didn't want to disconnect from either side, and I felt very strongly about that. Now, I understand that the world sees me as a black woman, a person of color, and I'm okay with that.

  

  Brooklyn Sudano
  • World
  • Black Woman
  • Person of color