Taye Diggs Quotes
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So although women can do anything that men can't do, they can also do something that men can't do, and that is mother their children.
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I just have a connection with sign language. I always thought the deaf community was a different community to be a part of. In high school, me and my friend took sign language.
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Comfort and luxury are usually the chief requirements of life for your ego - its top priorities tend to be accumulations, achievements, and the approval of others.
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Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
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Skin care is so much more important than makeup. Makeup is for when you're having fun and going out. But your skin is forever.
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Everybody's an artist. Everybody's God. It's just that they're inhibited.
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Art is about play and about transcendent meanings, not reducible to politics.
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I'm a New Yorker. My background is in theater, so staying here, I have the opportunity to get back to that, which I would love to do.
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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
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I've never danced professionally as a ballet dancer, but all of my training is ballet, and I am a Fosse dancer.
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Education for all seems to be the product of a type of distributive justice that is in no way related to the individual.
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I was not the pampered baby, no. I'm five years younger, and my parents were actually very strict with me, more strict than with the other ones.
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I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.
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The challenge for a writer looking at history is to figure out what is history and what is myth. After all, what you are looking at is an interpretation of history, and so at some level, it becomes an interpretation of an interpretation.
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When people asked me what I was going to do when I grow up, I always said, 'I'm going to be a writer. I'm going to write screenplays. I'm going to write books. I'm going to write plays. That's what I'm going to do.'
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I hate camping, but I love summer camp.
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I never lost a friend I wanted to keep.
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
Nastassja Kinski -
I'm not the kind of person who would want to go into a studio and manage other people and listen to the phone ringing. That's alien to me.
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I think part of what acting did for me is it kind of represents all my greatest fears. I'm sort of compelled to do it, but at the same time, it's so frightening. But I think that the things that frighten me the most in life are the things I should be doing.
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Once I got my driver's license everybody treated me like I was an adult.
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I told my agent which women I aspire to have a career like: Frances McDormand, Kate Winslet, Laura Linney and Emma Thompson - character actresses who have something to say. I also said that I loved Madeline Kahn and Jessica Lange.
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Not one role that I've played has been written specifically for me.
