Demetria McKinney Quotes
I think that as women sometimes, we put ourselves secondary because we kind of lose ourselves and the part of us that makes us awesome.
Demetria McKinney
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There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. But God as my witness, I am going to try to do everything I can to keep this ass together for as long as I possibly can - without going against nature.
Zoe Saldana
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For an entire populace, change, growth, and spontaneity were dangerous. Acting upon a personal desire, whispering a hidden longing, revealing your true feelings - all the human actions we think of as essential to a character - had be censored by the self lest they be punished by the state.
Adam Johnson
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Truth is on the side of the oppressed.
Malcolm X
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I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.
Hampton Sides
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Doubt can motivate you, so don't be afraid of it. Confidence and doubt are at two ends of the scale, and you need both. They balance each other out.
Barbra Streisand
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You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.
Samuel Larsen
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I remember in 'Pride and Prejudice' I had to do a scene where I broke down. And before we filmed I spent like three hours imagining my mum's funeral. Actually, she's very much alive, happy and healthy. It was really horrible.
Carey Mulligan
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I've always written. At the age of six or seven, I would get sheets of A4 paper and fold them in half, cut the edges to make a little eight-page booklet, break it up into squares and put in little stick men with little speech bubbles, and I'd have a spy story, a space story and a football story.
Ian Rankin
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I knew that with a mouth like mine, I just hadda be a star or something.
Barbra Streisand
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Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
Queen Rania of Jordan
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New Directions is a reviewer’s nightmare; it’s enough punishment to read it all, without writing about it too.
Randall Jarrell
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Why don't you come up sometime and see me? … Come on up, I'll tell your fortune.
Mae West
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My mother was the influence on me - my father was absent. He was a diamond dealer; he was doing wonderful things in the background, and women were left at home. So my mother really was in charge of everything: the ballet, dance lessons, piano lessons, and latkes.
Maira Kalman
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Words are the essence of culture. Books are pure essence. They are not for women or for men, but for all of us. Without books, civilisation falls into the dark ages.
Matt Haig
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My comfort zone is like a little bubble around me, and I've pushed it in different directions and made it bigger and bigger until these objectives that seemed totally crazy eventually fall within the realm of the possible.
Alex Honnold
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I really woke up one morning and said, you know, 'I haven't seen a good film about the American Revolution. And all the ones I have seen haven't been successful, but I'm going to make a successful one.' Well, I wasn't able to do that.
Irwin Winkler
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I always had a weird thing with being the last person somewhere... like a movie theater or a classroom. I get a weird sense of anxiety.
Alona Tal
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I think that as women sometimes, we put ourselves secondary because we kind of lose ourselves and the part of us that makes us awesome.
Demetria McKinney
