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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Well, where there is freedom doubt itself must be free.
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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 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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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.
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Coming from a small town, I didn't have big dreams. My biggest ambition was to find a job for myself.
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I've been wrestling since I was 18 years old. And within the first five months of my wrestling career, I'd already had three concussions. And for years after that, I would get a concussion here and there, and it gets to the point that when you've been wrestling for 16 years, that adds up to a lot of concussions.
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To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.
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What matters it to me if someone does not understand this? Let him too rejoice and say, “What is this?” Let him rejoice even at this, and let him love to find you while not finding it out, rather than, while finding it out, not to find you.
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Whether you're on a diet, or you're looking for a go-to one bowl dinner recipe, salads should be thought of as crowd-pleasers, not a dreaded component of a meal.
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I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
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Constant rejection. No security. Career paths being dictated by freelance reviewers. And of course, the terror of the writing desk, of the blank page. Why is it so hard for our non-writer friends to understand this - that it's a job?
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Basquiat will continue to show us new things about who we are and why he was so important.
