Patricia Hill Collins Quotes
Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.
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Sometimes I'd like to play the bad guy and sometimes I'd like to die in a movie.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.
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In the CIA, they recruit you to be an officer, an ops officer, in part due to how well you cope with stress and how well you adapt to new situations.
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The Bible may be the truth, but it is not the whole truth and nothing but the truth.
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I come from a place where everything about me, even my body language, is saying: I mean you no harm. I smile, I laugh. Basic stuff for most people.
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There's a hardening of the culture. Reality TV has lowered the standards of entertainment. You're left wondering about the legitimacy of relationships. It's probably harder to entertain the same people with a more classic form of writing, and romantic comedies are a classic genre.
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There's no biography so interesting as the one in which the biographer is present.
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I have now exactly the same weight I had when I was 18, 20.
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There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.
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My mom was an actress in the local Seattle theater doing experimental plays.
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Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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'Haraamkhor' is a low budget film. We are not worried about the box office because our film is already in profit. It's got a strong content that will reach people's heart.
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I had studied Irish history. I had read speeches from the dock. I had tried to fuse the vivid past of my nation with the lost spaces of my childhood. I had learned the battles, the ballads, the defeats. It never occurred to me that eventually the power and insistence of a national tradition would offer me only a new way of not belonging.
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I was 19, and I thought I should settle down and get a real job, and what was I doing living this dream world?
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My life has become a reality show. When I am home, people are climbing trees with cameras. I feel that my personal space is being encroached upon. I will try and protect it as much as I can.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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Every new experience is unusual. The rest of life is just sleep and committee meetings.
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I spent a lot of time doing things other people wanted me to do, so I'm doing what I want to do now.
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I love sport, I grew up playing sports, that's all I did, and it is so invigorating now that I'm supposedly adult to learn something completely new, from the bottom up.
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I can only speak for myself, and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And, hopefully, they'll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day, I just want my work to speak for itself.
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[Oscar Wilde's Salome screenplay] is not autobiographical in a sense where you go to my house and see my kids and stuff like that, but that's why I guess it's semi-autobiographical.
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Work for black women has been an important and valued dimension of Afrocentric definitions of black motherhood.
