Tasha Smith Quotes
Angela Bassett is a friend of mine and someone who I truly admire tremendously in terms of her work and her choices.
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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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My life has been forged by middle class values: faith, hard work, deep respect for America and all that she stands for.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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I put on whatever is comfortable on me. Suit, jeans and tee as long as it's comfortable. It doesn't matter what brand. If it looks good I buy it.
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Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.
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By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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I love listening to pop radio.
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And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.
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I was, by the way - I'm an Essex lad, born and raised in Essex in the U.K.
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I definitely want to be an inspiration or a role model for all the little girls out there or anyone out there that wants to break stereotypes. I feel like I'm breaking stereotypes with what I'm doing. I'm not the typical fighter, and there's a lot of people out there that won't do something just because they don't fit the stereotype.
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There is a quite a lot of effort involved but I find action sequences some of the quickest to write and the most fun.
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I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.
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It's grueling never knowing if the audience is going to think you're funny. It's soul-destroying when they don't laugh.
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The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
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Wanting to feel good is synonymous with wanting to feel God.
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I'm a part of a program called Toyota's Engines of Change Program. The message is that anyone can make a difference in their community or for whatever cause they feel strongly about. Everyone can be an Engine of Change.
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Because of social media, we have a lot of personal essays floating around; you see them on Facebook: everyone's either reading them or writing them. Some of them are great; some of them are diary entries put forth as essays.
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What should I do with your strong, manly, spirited sketches, full of variety and glow? How could I possibly join them on to the little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush, as produces little effect after much labour?
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When you see or hear something beautiful, it's like that thing is transmitting a kind of energy, and if that energy helped create the work, the only thing I can do is play it when I finally show the work.
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Obama does seem to have what both FDR and Lincoln had, which is the recognition that you have to hold back at times and then wait to come forward.
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Angela Bassett is a friend of mine and someone who I truly admire tremendously in terms of her work and her choices.
