Daniel Beaty Quotes
We can overcome if we change the way we see, see ourselves, see our past, see our possibility.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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I've never worked in politics, never been a member of an official committee or a political party.
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For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal.
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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Acting doesn't have to be threadbare misery all the time.
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I'm not a good photographer, not a good writer. I'm a pretty regular person whose insecurity is so pervasive that it makes me always feel vulnerable.
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Anti-Semitism is extremely common.
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We're not trying to reinvent the wheel; for any environmental organization to claim sole responsibility for any kind of victory is insane, because everybody attacks these problems as a group.
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Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
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You know, I'm fairly intelligent, but I don't think my grades reflected that.
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A huge part of my career and how I want to participate in the world is being unapologetically myself and being honest and vulnerable.
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To me there is no picture so beautiful as smiling, bright-eyed, happy children; no music so sweet as their clear and ringing laughter.
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I check all my props, everything. Acting is something I love. I have done it since I was 13 but it had completely taken over my life absolutely.
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I was a weird but definite kid, and there were essentially no gender roles for me to fit into.
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I would listen to how they told the story, to what elements they used, to how it sounded, and that's who I patterned myself after, the people who were on CBS News.
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I'm not terribly confrontational, but I've gotten better at holding my ground.
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I lived in Paris for six months when I was sixteen. It was a fend-for-yourself environment.
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Drilling is risky because finding oil is only half the job. The real challenge is finding the money to pump the oil.
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I think glamour all the time. I wake up in the morning and I'm already thinking glamour.
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It takes more to make one sage today than it did to make the seven of Greece. And you need more resources to deal with a single person these days than with an entire nation in times past.
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History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.
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I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things, and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.
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Christina Baker Kline writes exquisitely about two unlikely friends—one, a 91-year-old survivor of the grinding poverty of rural Ireland, immigrant New York and the hardscrabble Midwest; and the other, a casualty of a string of foster homes—each struggling to transcend a past of isolation and hardship. Orphan Train will hold you in its grip as their fascinating tales unfold.
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We can overcome if we change the way we see, see ourselves, see our past, see our possibility.
