Danielle Fotopoulos Quotes
I grew up in a big Irish family, where everyone played the traditional sports, and I remember my grandfather saying to me, 'Why are you playing that communist game? You won't get anywhere with it.'
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I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.
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I started traveling by myself as early as 5 to see my dad. I'd go to Toronto or Los Angeles, depending on what show he was doing, but most often New York, and we would hang out, and he'd take me to museums and Broadway plays. The ones that had the biggest impact on me were the George C. Wolfe productions.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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I always wanted to be a leading man!
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Obviously fashion is a completely different world from football.
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Poetry is not only a set of words which are chosen to relate to each other; it is something which goes much further than that to provide a glimpse of our vision of the world.
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Senegal needs to free itself, to rediscover its democracy.
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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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I don't think men are that attracted by glamour. I think women are attracted by glamour. I think men are attracted by a sense of friendship.
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Government or politics in America today is big business. Everybody makes money involving themselves in one way or the other, whether it's pollsters, whether they are policy wonks, whether they are pundits, whether they are those who believe that they must call it as they see it and then to be fair about it.
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I work with history because I come from a country that has a tremendous thirst for reality.
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I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.
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My being bought as a politically outspoken artist is a more potent advertising tool for Apple than a 100 more explicit ads.
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A reader's eyes may glaze over after they take in a couple of paragraphs about Canadian tariffs or political developments in Pakistan; a story about the reader himself or his neighbors will be read to the end.
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You always see people coming back to the sport, and I've always thought, 'Gosh, when you're done playing, wouldn't you just want to stay at home?'
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I always kind of think if The Beatles were still around now, people would've lost interest quite a long time ago. Seven years of recording - it's there forever. I think not outstaying your welcome is a vital ingredient.
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I feel I am blessed. So many actresses went without doing a period film in their career, and I got a chance to do one in my first film.
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Disco is just jitterbug.
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I was 3 when I told my mom that I knew what my dharma was and that I wanted to be an actor.
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It stresses me out writing songs,; I get really super nervous and speedy. I feel like I'm possessed.
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Without self-discipline, success is impossible, period.
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People don't really absorb everything they read or hear. They just look at it quickly, and then they choose to remember what they want to remember.
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I practice reading all the time. I read everything and having so many scripts to read, which really helps out as well.
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I grew up in a big Irish family, where everyone played the traditional sports, and I remember my grandfather saying to me, 'Why are you playing that communist game? You won't get anywhere with it.'
