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I'm very moody, so I dress for whatever mood I'm in. Sometimes I want to be a little more boyish and flowy and comfortable. Sometimes I want to feel a little sexier and more composed.
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If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma.
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I don't have many friends in Philadelphia. I sort of have one. I have the dog and someone else.
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I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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I was brought up the Mexican way, where actors are paid very little and every part you take is an act of faith. If people respect that, then great.
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If your work requires you to travel, you will understand that there's no vacation destination like home.
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I try to work on shows that I would want to watch.
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I don't really go out at all.
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Eventually, I grew out of my interest in motorcycles because they're quite dangerous. I don't ride them anymore. But I have this history.
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It wasn't always easy getting up at 5 o'clock in the morning to go to the rink. Sometimes I wanted to just go back to sleep.
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It's a good thing I don't read everything Eddie says, or I'd be up in arms and not enjoying my life.
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One of the issues I kept saying to my students is you have to learn to interrupt. When you raise your hand at a meeting, by the time they get to you, the point is not germane. So the bottom line is active listening. If you are going to interrupt, you look for opportunities. You have to know what you're talking about.
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In many ways, anger is a misdirected plea for love.
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Language does not make one an elite.
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I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
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The kitchen is tough. It's one of the last bastions in civilized culture that sets out to crush the spirit.
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I wanted to write a novel that would make others feel the history: the pain and fear that black people have had to live through in order to endure.
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After each creative act one has to be sustained by one's strength of character, by a moral sense, by I don't know what, lest one tumble.
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The acting of the '50s is really stylized, so you're not really getting a lot of authentic, everyday characterization of people.
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I don't really know much about TV and what people want to see. I'm not that well-informed about it.
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You can have it all but how much do you want it?
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I'm very moody, so I dress for whatever mood I'm in. Sometimes I want to be a little more boyish and flowy and comfortable. Sometimes I want to feel a little sexier and more composed.
