Dawson Trotman Quotes
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An increase in light gives an increase in darkness.
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I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.
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My mother, R. Rajalakshmi, taught at Annamalai University in Chidambaram, and during the day, I was well cared for by aunts and grandparents in the usual way of an extended Indian family.
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My style is all I have. When I go on stage, that's me in my comfort zone. It's not a costume. It's just me. And I want every woman to feel that way.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful; they were found because it was possible to find them.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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I am a reluctant celebrity, in some ways.
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I think it's important that things are flawed.
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That was a huge part of my training, doing improv in Chicago.
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The woman who can't influence her husband to vote the way she wants ought to be ashamed of herself.
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I love things that are harsh and things that are too loud. And I love lulling people into a false sense of security. That's life.
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The genesis of Public Interest Litigation in listening to the voice of the voiceless and giving access to the poor, the marginalised, and the weak is a unique experiment to be lauded.
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The key is to work with people who are passionate about storytelling and who have a similar sensibility of the type and nature of the stories that you want to tell.
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As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.
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I've always felt a spiritual connection with acting. And I felt whole when I was onstage.
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I read autobiographies because there is too much fiction in my life.
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I wanted to come back with the team I grew up with.
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I'm fearless, to a degree.
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When I was in high school, I was a bad singer. I mean, all my early acting was musical theater, and my first ever show was 'Jesus Christ Superstar.' Everyone's familiar with it. I played priest number 3 and sang so out of tune that it's not even funny.
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Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There's three people writing now, and we've all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words.
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History is that certainty produced at the point where the imperfections of memory meet the inadequacies of documentation.
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Once Clinton won, I started picking on him.
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The greatest amount of wasted time is the time not getting started.
