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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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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If you tell the truth you get into trouble, and that's why politicians are extremely dull.
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The writing I love has something memorable in it - an image, a smell. It's the connection between the moment and the whole concept, weaving the micro together with the macro so that it has a hold on people - that's writing.
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I remember immediately - immediately - feeling like, 'I don't want to play 'We Are Young' when I'm 35. I don't want to be defined by this.'
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I've been around so long, most editors think I'm dead.
Elliott Erwitt -
I like to think that I'm trying to choose love over most things, but that's my choice.
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Animals... don't have a sense of time. You just have to do things over and over with animals until they happen to do it right because they don't really know what you want.
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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.
