Tamra Davis Quotes
Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.
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People want to see more diversity. That's why you have the Kevin Hart making $17 million dollars on a holiday weekend.
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When I was first starting to write plays, I quite literally had never heard of the idea of studying playwriting. I wouldn't have studied it even if I had heard of it.
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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All my life, my immediate response to emotional pain has been to make jokes. Lots of jokes.
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I hate watching myself on film because I am so judgmental.
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Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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I love charity thrift stores. Amazing one-of-a-kind pieces at terrific prices, and all the money you spend goes to a good cause.
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I just wanted to rollerblade at Union Square.
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I'm very comfortable as a singer. In fact, I think it's more - I identified my self-esteem, my self more in those ways when I was growing up. I really - it was kind of my calling card as a kid.
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I think the process is one of using the camera and sound in the way a detective uses a magnifying glass: to find the clues. They're discovery devices, not performance devices - you're watching things the way a cat does. You're not judging. You're there to witness something.
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I was always used to being centre stage - something that had its good and bad points.
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This country is becoming increasingly authoritarian. It's based on capital punishment.
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Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
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Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
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To run an effective political party you need a degree of tribalism, it's the glue that holds everyone together.
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And most of all, I want to emphasize to you, Mr. President-elect, that we now are going to want to do everything we can to help you succeed, because if you succeed, then the country succeeds.
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What kind of scholar was I? Or was I a scholar at all? My ignorance was enormous. Beside it my knowledge was nothing. My hunger for learning, not so much to improve my lot as to understand my world, had led me to study and to thought. Reading without thinking is as nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.
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In the early '50s, it was still the time of Christian Dior's New Look. Every dress was big and important, and I thought I must do something completely different. Women needed something for daytime that was wearable.
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There's an insecure part of me that comes out of me, I get nervous. I don't know why, I wish I could overcome it because it gives me an anxiety feeling.
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Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.
