T'Keyah Crystal Keymah Quotes
I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.
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I could hear my friends outside playing soccer while I was expected to stay inside practicing the piano. It was like torture!
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I have fun going on Twitter and the Internet. I feel safe and comfortable, and I wish everyone could feel that way.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
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I enjoy speaking to other women about turning 50, and how we can enjoy it, and how we can explore it.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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I first started writing fiction in college because I was attracted to beautiful sentences. I loved to read them. I wanted to write them.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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I mean, the greatest athletes in the world are African-American.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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Love is never lost. If not reciprocated, it will flow back and soften and purify the heart.
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More and more what we're licensing, we're licensing on a global basis - even though the studios aren't orchestrated to sell that way yet, my bet is that they will.
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The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.
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He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.
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I think I first got into acting through church. I would go to these church retreats, and they would tell us to make a skit or make a video and present it to the rest of the group. And I started doing that. And I fell in love with it.
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I acted professionally for about eight years, and I was writing all that time but never showed anybody any of it. There just came a point after those eight years when I thought, 'There's a lot I can do with acting - there are a lot of things I can express and do creatively, but there are also limitations.'
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I'm inspired every time I see a role I'd like to play, an actor turn in a well crafted performance, a story I'd like to tell, direct or produce.
