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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I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.
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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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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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'Miracle at St. Anna.' I was challenged by Spike Lee. When he offered me the film, he looked me square in the eye and said, 'You start this film off and you end this film. I don't want a dry eye in the theatre. Can you pull that off?' He was dead serious.
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What you find in the theatre is that if you're good, no matter what color you are, the audience will buy that - whoever you are.
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When I emerge from filming I feel slightly out of synch with real life, but it's also a relief.
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I like the idea of stopping mid-sentence, like Graham Greene.
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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.
