Daniel Beaty Quotes
Every action begins with a thought, and if you don't watch what you're thinking, your thoughts will get the best of you.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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I'm a little bit perverse, and I just hate doing the thing that's the most obvious.
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There's no business like show business.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.
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There were so many groups that I had in college, but I was always the solo singer. But what made it so unusual back in the day was that I was a black girl playing with all these white musicians, and I was also singing rock music on top of it.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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When you're getting old, obviously you try to put on the best cream, you have massages, you try to stay beautiful, but I think wrinkles can sometimes be more beautiful than having none.
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I'm not musically inclined. It blows my mind that people can write music. I don't have that talent; I look up to the people that do.
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Nothing is more enjoyable for me than when I'm watching a movie or a TV show and there's that sense that anything can happen. It is the most fun feeling in the world.
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I wanted to get that Division I scholarship and play ball and go to school for free, and I was always about getting to that next step... I was always ahead of myself in some way, shape or form, and trying to envision how to get further along and closer to fulfilling that dream of being free and having creative agency, so to speak.
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I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.
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If you can't move the audience, they don't want you.
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I describe myself as an environmentalist not because I'm marching in the street with placards but because I like to be in the woods by myself.
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There are African-American families around this country - a large, large number of African-American families - that operate out of complete fear that their kids are going to be taken from them and will do anything to prevent that.
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Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.
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For me, my training is a key part of my work as so often my life has depended on being able to move fast and haul myself up and out of something fast!
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I just want to thank all my fans for their loyalty and support-for coming out to the shows and buying the CDs.
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God doesn't just miraculously and physically intervene in the whole process, so if I just go and drop a bunch of chemicals and herbicides that leach into the groundwater, I can pray all day to keep my child healthy, but if the herbicides gone into the groundwater come up my well, my child's going to drink that water.
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The mania is like wasps under the skin, like my head's going to explode with ideas.
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Public housing is more than just a place to live, public housing programs should provide opportunities to residents and their families.
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I've really been blessed to have these roles in movies that will last forever.
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Christmas is a huge thing in my family. We usually start decorating the day after Thanksgiving. We spend Christmas Eve with one set of grandparents, and Christmas Day with the other grandparents and our family.
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Every action begins with a thought, and if you don't watch what you're thinking, your thoughts will get the best of you.
