Kasi Lemmons Quotes
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I have always had a sense of curiosity and aspiration.
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A child learns to discard his ideals, whereas a grown-up never wears out his short pants.
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You have no ability, if you're a financial institution and you're threatened with criminal prosecution, you have no ability to negotiate.
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As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
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In the wealthy industrialized nations, effective drug therapies against AIDS became available - AZT as early as 1987, then combinations of antiretroviral agents in 1996. The new drugs offered hope that fatal complications might be staved off and AIDS rendered a chronic condition.
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You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
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I'm going to show the difference between the champ and second place.
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Everything I've ever written, I had a very distinct vision of what I wanted it to look like. But, other directors never do it that way.
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Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.
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I remember before the Olympics, I was asked, 'What do you think you're going to do in the Olympics?' and I said, 'I'm hoping I'm going to win a medal, and, if possible, it's going to be a gold one.'
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I've had a lot of luck. If I didn't I'd be washing bottles in Russia.
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What is this life if, full of care, we have no time to stand and stare?
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Though my plans at the moment are vague, I can assure you that I'll never run for the Senate in New York.
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In the Middle East, we don't have the luxury to indulge in fantasy.
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When you're younger, you have ideas and visions of what you're going to be like when you're older and what love is going to be like and who you're gonna be married to and all of these different things.
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I embrace everything about Ally... I don't particularly see her as a whiner. One week she's tough, the next she's really weak. I love that. She's human.
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And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.
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I have so many friends who hate their jobs and man, it's such a struggle trying to find what they love or what they dream of. I feel so lucky that I found what I love and my dreams have started to come true.
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When I got a chance, I went back and shared those experiences that were important to me. George Washington High, the campus at San Francisco State, and even back to Emerson Elementary school and Roosevelt Junior High. I was happy to do it, to go back and see if all the same teachers were there.
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By and large, the artistic establishment disapproved of Margaret Thatcher.
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Actors put ourselves in awkward positions all the time.
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Actually, I think that a lot of the interviews and acoustic sessions and other things that artists fill their time with are really pointless and suck the energy out of the artist.
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So, on beyond Z! It's high time you were shown That you really don't know All there is to be known.
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Honestly, I do spend most of my time between films trying to get the next one made.
