Danzy Senna Quotes
I definitely feel like when I write a book it's not my job to police or guide the readers. The book and the characters don't belong to me anymore. If that makes sense.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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I looked along the San Juan Islands and the coast of California, but I couldn't find the palette of green, granite, and dark blue that you can only find in Maine.
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Lend your ears to music, open your eyes to painting, and... stop thinking! Just ask yourself whether the work has enabled you to 'walk about' into a hitherto unknown world. If the answer is yes, what more do you want?
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I never wanted to be one of those actors with a political agenda.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.
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I see a lot of scripts, and very few of them leap off the page at you.
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Food service is a growth area for PepsiCo.
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When most people become president, even if you disagree with their ideology, you can still agree that they would have the competence to run something... With Trump, I do not have the confidence of that at all.
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As an actor, you're constantly looking to be pushed.
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To avoid sounding like a cliche, I won't say I want to get proposed to in Paris, but Paris. I want it to happen somewhere public where people can be excited that I just got proposed to, and everyone applauds, like in a restaurant - that, or somewhere totally secluded... in Paris.
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To me, I'm going out there focusing on competing, not worrying about cardio or anything like that.
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I think every year brings unknowns that you have to deal with and handle, confront and embrace.
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The first theater subscription I ever bought was the August Wilson season at Signature. I remember thinking a whole season to one playwright was a great way for a master to do a victory lap.
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Meryl Streep's got talent, she's got skills. I'm sure she wants to be on 'Cougar Town,' right?
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Being at the pinnacle of my career is not to turn up in some multiplex blockbuster.
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People wouldn't know this about me, but I adore ball gowns. I love their cut, their architecture and the thought of the hands of so many seamstresses working on them.
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'True Detective' did change my career.
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As an actor, what you really want to do is communicate with people - this is my aim, my principle aim.
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I don't take off my nail polish when I go home because I'm too lazy, and they're fine with it. Maybe the checkout at the grocery store's not so great with it, but they're fine with it. The distrust, the phobias, those are learned, those are taught. But the natural grace is to understand and to love.
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No one can become fully aware of the very essence of another human being unless he loves him.
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I never worry about diets. The only carrots that interest me are the number you get in a diamond.
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I definitely feel like when I write a book it's not my job to police or guide the readers. The book and the characters don't belong to me anymore. If that makes sense.
