Tananarive Due Quotes
The great thing about journalism is that there is so much exposure to all kinds of people who can turn up later as characters, whether you intend it or not.
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I started auditioning but at times would feel depressed, as I would get shortlisted but never received the final call. Only when the commercials were released would I come to know that I was not selected.
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I love to smell like roses, literally all day!
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I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.
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For me, it's actually really hard to write about my real experience. Like to do a Taylor Swift. You know what I mean? It's so brave to actually write about things that happened and things you wanna get off your chest, but I'm not really there yet.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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I was supposed to be a doctor. I was supposed to go to Princeton. And everything I was supposed to do I didn't.
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I wouldn't mind going somewhere and taking a president position and signing acts and taking the attention off of me and taking what I've learned in my career and applying that to another person's.
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I am musical and I enjoy theatre, but I never wanted to just do theatre. I always wanted to go into film. I love film. I loved growing up in the theatre, but I always wanted to do film all along. But, I still pursue music separately.
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To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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In TV, you don't know everything. The writers only give you scripts before you shoot the episodes. They keep you on your nerve.
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I don't have any respect at all for the scum-bags who went to Canada to avoid the draft or to avoid doing their fair share.
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I did one of those 'born again' things and invited Jesus to become the chairman of the board, of my life.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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I played Miley Cyrus' grandma on 'Hannah Montana,' and the first time I was on, they said, 'We love having veterans like you on because she's like a little sponge, and she's really appreciative of all the veterans that are coming on the show, and we just love that you're teaching her.'
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Napster was predicating its business model on violation of copyright.
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Science has done more for the development of Western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred.
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As long as you are conscious of yourself, you can never concentrate on anything.
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New York gave me hell for that 'Purple Swag,' man. They didn't respect me until 'Peso.'
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There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job.
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When I'm writing for certain instruments, you want to write within what you know about that instrument but also challenge the player. Something like 'Aheym' is very virtuosic - but because I have a history of performing music, I don't like unplayable music.
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The great thing about journalism is that there is so much exposure to all kinds of people who can turn up later as characters, whether you intend it or not.
