Amara La Negra (Diana Danelys De Los Santos) Quotes
I’m just trying to act black. Whatever that means. What exactly is acting black? I’m not sure what that is.
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But you know, I always said that no one else on my block was on the radio, and it was fun.
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For me, each nuance of a color is in some way an individual, a being who is not only from the same race as the base color, but who definitely possesses a distinct character and personal soul.
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Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.
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Perhaps I'm particularly serious, because I'm not unaware of the potential absurdity of what I'm doing.
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I don't think people really understood what I did. And you know, in my book, 'A Helluva High Note' deals with my back story, that I was a songwriter, that I spent years trying to hone my craft and being rejected and then finally becoming a successful songwriter, record executive and publisher.
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I do love pasta. It gets me into trouble. If I could give up pasta and bread, I'd look like Cate Blanchett.
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Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.
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I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
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I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
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I still owe a duty of loyalty to my clients and former clients, so I cannot specify which clients I did not especially find congenial, but the cause was the same.
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I'm a fast writer.
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Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
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Music is something I can't stop. Whether people are going to hear it or not, I'm still going to make music.
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I really have a passion for food. Of course, music, but behind that, it's food.
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My biggest regret is that I wasn't able to help give our fans a championship.
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I was falsely arrested twice, slandered and defamed.
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I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.
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I didn't have evil intentions, but I guess I did have power.
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Change is not popular; we are creatures of habit as human beings. “I want it to be the way it was." But if you continue the way it was there will be no “is."
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We struggle to understand how any mother could kill her own children.
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The minority of Mexicans who are aware of their own selves do not make up a closed or unchanging class. They are the only active group, in comparison with the Indian-Spanish inertia of the rest, and ever day they are shaping the country more and more into their own image.
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When I’m alone in my room sometimes I stare at the wall, and in the back of my mind I hear my conscience call.
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I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.
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I’m just trying to act black. Whatever that means. What exactly is acting black? I’m not sure what that is.
