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.Alice Walker
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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.
Mamie Van Doren -
I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.
Eberhard Weber -
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.
H. P. Lovecraft -
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.
Patrick Lencioni -
In the future, I want to have super-fights.
Rafael dos Anjos -
You either make dust or eat dust.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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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.
Baldwin Spencer -
I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'
J. R. Martinez -
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.
Fernando Botero -
I try to work on a film that my audiences would appreciate and enjoy their time in a theatre.
Mahesh Babu -
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.
Daniel Barenboim -
I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
Earl Campbell
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
Saint Ambrose -
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.
Gary Oldman -
Each time I make a movie, it's like a paid scholarship to a different university course.
Viggo Mortensen -
Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
Adam McKay -
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.
Felicity Jones -
I pick and choose my battles, but I overthink everything because I have to think about everything.
Action Bronson
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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.
Wade Boggs -
The next day the two sisters went to the ball, and so did Cinderella, but dressed more magnificently than before. The King's son was always by her side, and his pretty speeches to her never ceased.
Charles Perrault -
I'm so inspired by the women who are far braver than I am, who have come forward with their stories and risked everything to help others. What is important is that the voices of these women do not disappear. We must amplify them.
Jessica Chastain -
My job is to bring to life the character, not to put the words on the paper.
Michael K. Williams -
Anxiety is a really crippling condition, and I suffer with it myself, and I feel for anyone who suffers from it. The way that I deal with it is try as much as possible to stay in the moment to not think about the past and not think about what's coming up in the future: to try and just seize the moment as much as possible.
James Arthur -
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.
Alice Walker