Georgia Salpa Quotes
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Perhaps if we all subscribed to the African concept of Ubuntu - that we all become people through other people, and that we cannot be fully human alone, we could learn a lot. There'd be less hatred and more harmony.
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It is not easy to get parts in mainstream films for most people of color. Hollywood and British writers are not writing parts for us, or the directors are not interested in casting us in parts that are color-blind.
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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
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The relationship between violence and nonviolence in this country is interesting. The fact of the matter is, you know, people do respond to riots. The 1968 Housing Act was in large response to riots that broke out after Dr. Martin Luther King was killed. They cited these as an actual inspiration.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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If you can believe it, I had no intentions of being a wrestler.
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In the future, when we get serious about executing things correctly, this thing will be very easy to do. If we find out that this technique does not work, I don't intend to step on dead bodies to achieve something because I don't have that kind of ambition. My ambition is to help people.
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Children believe that if they just want something badly enough, it will happen.
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I learned music from a book on piano theory. I was only interested in knowing about chords. From that, and from the 'Harvard Dictionary of Music,' I learned everything I wanted to know.
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A lot of the material is about the inevitable disappointment people feel as they move through life, and things don’t feel the way they expect. No experience will ever match up to the idealized version in your mind.
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When I write, I write about my surroundings. Sometimes it's light, and sometimes it gets very dark.
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I sometimes read about authors who say they require a perfectly silent room maintained at precisely 68 degrees, with trash bags taped over the windows and a white-noise machine in the corner to write, and I think, 'Who are these people, and do any of them have kids?'
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We began in indies, and maybe we'll make another smaller film again sometime.
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We know so much about the European food story, and we're getting to know about the American food story; but we know so little about the African food story.
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I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.
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I come from a very left wing Socialist family, anti-war and anti-empire.
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Walks work for me. I enter some arena that is neither conscious or unconscious.
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Amazon is famously run by studying and responding to its own data; yet when it comes to promotions, decisions are often subjective and guided by human emotions and petty political dynamics.
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Turn your attention for a while away from the worries and anxieties. Remind yourself of all your many blessings.
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Lord, I have loved Your sky, Be it said against or for me, Have loved it clear and high, Or low and stormy....
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The waters are rising, but so am I. I am not going under, but over.
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He felt there in the teachers' room that it was the beginning of a new season in his life, and he chose deliberately to make it so. He did not have to make any announcement to Leslie that he had changed his mind about her. She already knew it.
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Guys always attract my attention when they wear nice clothes and they make an effort.
