Alice Walker Quotes
I think Africans are very much like white people back home, in that they think they are the center of the universe and that everything that is done is done for them.
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I took my acting very seriously. I did over 40 films, and naturally, some of them were called B-movies because the woman was at the top of the billing. Women couldn't star in their own movies.
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It is easy to remove the mind from harping on the lost illusion of immortality. The disciplined intellect fears nothing and craves no sugar-plum at the day's end, but is content to accept life and serve society as best it may.
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Every employee needs to know that there's somebody out there that they serve. And when we don't let people know that for one reason or another, we're depriving them of a fulfilling job.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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You either make dust or eat dust.
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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 think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.
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The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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My favorite meal would have to be good old-fashioned eggs, over easy, with bacon. Many others, but you can't beat that on a Sunday morning, especially with a cup of tea.
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Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
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Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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Acting has always existed alongside my normal life. It's been a case of learning on the job. I've worked in so many styles, with so many people, so I've picked bits up from everyone and everything.
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I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.
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Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.
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I think a great first date would be something different... not like movies or going to dinner... going rock climbing together... doing an activity and then going to dinner, so that you guys share an experience, and then you have something to talk about, and it's not the same old thing.
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The pickup points are a natural additional network for delivery. For me, the surprise is that Amazon didn't come up with that idea.
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I admire people who dare to take the language, English, and understand it and understand the melody.
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I putt like I did when I was a kid. When you're a kid, you're not scared of anything.
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Elvis was God-given, there's no other explanation. A Messiah comes around every few thousand years, and Elvis was it this time.
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I think Africans are very much like white people back home, in that they think they are the center of the universe and that everything that is done is done for them.
