Tamra Davis Quotes
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Cottonmouth is the result of having to react to his circumstances. He had to, in some ways, take control of the situation and own his circumstances. But as a result of that, he became a person he didn't intend to become.
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I think blogging is a muscle that most people wear out.
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If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
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Why is it that our young kids all across America can solve the most complex problems in a video game involving executive decision making and analytical thinking, yet we accept the fact that they can't add or read?
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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You've just got to sing, do some kind of singing every day. Early mornings and cold weather can mess with that. I drink special teas with cayenne pepper, but I think you're psyching yourself out, really.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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A man's got to do what a man's got to do. A woman must do what he can't.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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We should like to have some towering geniuses, to reveal us to ourselves in colour and fire, but of course they would have to fit into the pattern of our society and be able to take orders from sound administrative types.
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'The Outsiders' died on the vine being sold as a drugstore paperback.
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This is going to sound pretentious and esoteric, but I truly mean it from the bottom of my heart. Acting has always been a spiritual journey for me. The very first project I ever acted on paralleled my experience so perfectly even before I was aware of it.
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The TV business is soul crushing, talent destroying and human being destroying.
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And that had a powerful appeal, particularly to those who had been denied the choice to stay on at school, to go to university, to be something else, other than going down the pit.
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I have to be a leader now. I need to shoulder responsibility more than I used to. It's changed me, but I'm OK with that.
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Deep down inside, I'm really a black girl stuck in a Mexican girl's body. But I'm also in touch with my inner white girl and my inner Asian girl. I feel like a little bit of everybody.
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She was a girl and she was a queen and back in the mists she was a woman who had seized the moon from the sky and drunk its light so that she would never die. And she never had.
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The nights were long, like the braids of a pretty girl, and the days were short, like a girl's sense. ("The North")
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I love mentoring young filmmakers and girl filmmakers.
