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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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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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 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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My father's grandparents came from Norway and settled in the Scandinavian bastion of Minnesota. As a little girl in Tempe, Arizona, I daydreamed about picking cloudberries by a fjord in a fresh Nordic wind.
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One thing that I always liked about fashion was that it was tied in with music and art and film.
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I love my job and I know I am very lucky but still, if you audition and you don't get it, it still affects you.
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Culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. Civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.
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If you hesitate to map out your future, to make a big plan or to set a goal, you've just gone ahead and mapped your future anyway.
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The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.
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You run back and forth listening for unusual events, peering into the faces of travelers. "Why are you looking at me like a madman?" I have lost a friend. Please forgive me.
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We can overcome if we change the way we see, see ourselves, see our past, see our possibility.
