Lela Rose Quotes
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I am not going to say I have been a saint. I have not been a perfect man. None is perfect but the Father, which is in Heaven.
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Art is the elimination of the unnecessary.
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Man is priest, and scholar, and statesman, and producer, and soldier.
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I think the thing that I get most excited about is the fact that I know I'm gonna have a great match. That's when I get the butterflies. When it's just a regular match or something like that, I may not get that.
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I think something happens to us biologically when we have children where the worry sets in immediately. And I don't think that ever goes away. But you have to fight your instincts to build walls up around your children or to want to shelter and protect them from everything.
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I don't think there are that many awesome roles out there, whether we're talking about movies or TV.
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I had a low image of myself because I was brought up in the deep Depression.
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The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman.
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Whether people like it or not, you have to say the Old Firm are a major part of Scottish football. I know there is a lot of resentment from other clubs about that, but it's a fact.
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I have no regrets. I wanted to raise the kids and be a present father. When I developed a movie, I was gone for a year. That didn't really work for me. That isn't fair to make these life-forms and then disappear.
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I called my party the Green Oxygen party because Colombians were choking.
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Growing up in Hollywood meant there were a lot of film stars' kids at my school - but no conspicuous wealth. It wasn't cool to show off that you had money.
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I really wanted to give people that tool, that thing, that answer, 'Well, what are you going to do after Katrina? How does New Orleans come back?' And I'm thinking to myself, New Orleans is back. We're the definition of 'back.' We're the definition of 'rebirth,' of 'renaissance.'
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If I hadn't fought back, I might have been Gidget forever.
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People play with pain all the time.
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Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.
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As far as stand-ups go, I always loved Richard Pryor, Chris Rock, and Sinbad. Basically, I love black comedians because they're the funniest. I wish I were a black comedian, actually.
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The norm is white, apparently, in the view of people who see things in that way. For them, the only reason you would introduce a black character is to introduce this kind of abnormality. Usually, it's because you're telling a story about racism or at least about race.
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I have high hopes that GIS will become increasingly relevant for landscape architects as we make the tools easier to use for the design process of just inventory and mapping.
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With limited shifts, low wages, and scarce benefits, it feels almost impossible for many Americans to get their slice of the pie.
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I'd rather live at the bottom of a well than leave Avonlea.
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The soul knows no greater anguish than to take a breath that begins with love and ends with grief.
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I had to know if I could make it somewhere else. I did not want to go through the rest of my life wondering what might have been without putting myself to the test.
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I really don't like take-out.
