Tamara Tunie Quotes

I was the first African-American woman to play Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' It was at the Virginia State Theatre, and we turned Richmond upside down.

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• The rich don't win elections. They support the money, but what percentage of America are rich? What is it, 2 percent? But they all have one vote.

  

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• I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

  

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• I graduated from UC San Diego, wanted to work in film to get my hands-on real experience, did music videos, TV, feature films, all kinds of stuff.

  

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• Is literature more important than hurting people? You can't argue that. You can't say it. It's impossible.

  

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• I look forward to a time when my career in a place where I can get out of Los Angeles and find a nice small town like I grew up in to raise my family.

  

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• I didn't know anything about writing a screenplay, but somehow I ended up rewriting a screenplay.

  

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• Gun owners and non-gun owners alike agree on expanding background checks, making gun trafficking a serious crime with stiff penalties, making it illegal for all stalkers and all domestic abusers to buy guns, and expanding mental health resources so the mentally ill find it easier to receive treatment than to buy firearms.

  

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• Most of my songs start out as being very aggressive and guitar-driven.

  

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• I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.

  

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• Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it.

  

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• Bad ballplayers make good managers.

  

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• I come from really humble people. We never had a lot.

  

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• Personally, I am not so affected by my environment. What I build in the creative process is not necessarily connected to what I am physically in contact with. I am always observing everything, but it will not necessarily have a direct impact on what I do.

  

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• I really like the collaboration of doing movies and television. But I like the sort of solitary work of doing music.

  

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• I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

  

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• Nothing is funnier than confidently doing the wrong thing.

  

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• The greatest desire of my heart was for the Lord to manifest His will concerning me.

  

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• So I felt, well, I'll make the money and, with the money, do what I want to do.

  

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• Boy, there are days where I get up and say 'Where the hell did my talent go? Look at this crap that I'm producing here. This is terrible. Look, I wrote this yesterday. I hate this, I hate this.'

  

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• I saw 'Get On Up' about a dozen times. I went every day. Every single day, I was standing outside when the movie theatre opened and bought my ticket. The theatre was usually empty. I live in a town that wasn't eager or very interested in a James Brown biopic, but I couldn't stop watching Boseman.

  

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• The American spirit is stronger than stone and mortar, tougher than steel and glass, and more enduring than any pain or suffering that can be inflicted on our national conscience.

  

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• Cash-strapped cities in nations from Argentina to Albania have begun to turn over their municipal water systems to Big Water, often under lease arrangements that can continue in force for decades.

  

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• I was the first African-American woman to play Maggie in 'Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.' It was at the Virginia State Theatre, and we turned Richmond upside down.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • American
  • Woman
  • Theatre