Danzy Senna Quotes
I wrote the first draft of the New People quickly but it had been percolating a lot longer. It's a hard question to answer because I'd been working on another novel for years and when I gave up on that, this one came very easily. But I think the work had been going on a lot longer than the actual writing.
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As the years go by, I've added a few pounds on, and I like it. I like it that I look a little softer.
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Ancient Egyptians went to great lengths to avoid change; they couldn't entirely do so, of course, but did preserve a cultural continuity for almost four thousand years.
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Consciousness is indeed always with us. Everyone knows 'I am!' No one can deny his own being.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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I thought of learning cinematography, so I assisted a cinematographer for an ad.
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You've got to perform in a role hundreds of times. In keeping it fresh one can become a large, madly humming, demented refrigerator.
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I'm a Sufi Muslim, I would say. I believe in using the medium to create a good vibration because art is so important to society. Some projects I don't do because I feel that it's going to create a bad vibe. I don't do propaganda films that are anti another religion, anti-Muslim or anti-Hindu.
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Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
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Very often there's this misapprehension about actors being people that need to display themselves, to reveal themselves in public.
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I wear a lot of wigs as Jacques Mesrine. He'd wear multiple wigs and take them off one at a time to rob three banks in one hour.
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It is only when there is the supervision and critical oversight from the people that the government will be in a position to do an even better job, and employees of government departments will be the true public servants of the people.
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I guess I'm quite practical. Or at least like to think I am.
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I mix things from my Somali culture and my American side.
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There is no conclusive proof of Unidentified Flying Objects flying over India-China border.
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I wouldn't not want to be a director and write as I wouldn't not to want to be a writer and direct movies.
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I live halfway between reality and theater at all times. And I was born this way.
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I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat.
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The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.
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Being in this position enables myself and others to deliver messages of positivity - we can broadcast to everyone just how beautiful this world is, and all the ways we can keep it beautiful by treating one another with kindness.
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We must develop energy independence; we must Make It In America.
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Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for.
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Of all the myriads of God, Daridranarayana is the most sacred inasmuch as it represents the untold millions of the poor people as distinguished from the few rich people.
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When I was at youth theatre and drama school, I never thought people would mistake me for a stand-up.
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I wrote the first draft of the New People quickly but it had been percolating a lot longer. It's a hard question to answer because I'd been working on another novel for years and when I gave up on that, this one came very easily. But I think the work had been going on a lot longer than the actual writing.
