Alaya Dawn Johnson Quotes

Palmares Tres is a society born out of a distinct, idiosyncratic utopian vision formed in the midst of an apocalypse. I would say the residents of Palmares Tres respect the strength of that history and their remarkable ability to rise from the ashes of the old world.

Alaya Dawn Johnson

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• I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Trying
  • School
  • Love

• The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.

  

  Daniel Dennett
  • Science
  • Mathematics

• I think it's very refreshing to see women in cinema having strength and their own independent storyline.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Women
  • Independent
  • Strength

• We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Up
  • She
  • Friends

• My mother has been the greatest influence on my life, morally. When I get right down to it, my mother and father are two people I can count on no matter what.

  

  Jack Wagner
  • People
  • Life
  • Mother

• A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Stand For
  • Fall For

• When you say to Israelis, 'European boycott,' they think it means that this year they won't get Camembert cheese on time... That is not the case.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Time
  • Think
  • Year

• Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.

  

  Victor Kiam
  • Opportunity
  • Procrastination
  • Assassin

• I have my dad's shape. No booty.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Dad
  • Shape
  • Booty

• Try to find someone with a sense of humor. That's an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny. You don't want to hide away from a point, because some points are serious, but you'd rather have a discussion that was a discussion, rather than an argument.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Important
  • Funny
  • Best

• If you want your children to improve, let them overhear the nice things you say about them to others.

  

  Haim Ginott
  • Children
  • Want
  • You

• I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
  • Hope
  • Black
  • See

• Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Work
  • Idea
  • Research

• Zach Galifianakis is hilarious. I worked with him on a pilot before; he's hilarious and such a nice person.

  

  Zachary Gordon
  • Nice
  • Him
  • Hilarious

• For me, acting is a long-term thing. I'm not in a hurry to make it. I have no desire to explode onto the film industry. I still want to be acting when I'm 60.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Long
  • Me
  • Desire

• I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Guy

• I found poetry at 12 and 13 and, lo and behold, learned that my attorney father had a background in poetry - as he wore dashikis and Afros in the '70s and named his kids Arabic names. He was a poet and a lot like The Last Poets and Gil Scott-Heron and all of these folks. He definitely was an artist.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Kids
  • Father
  • Poetry

• Manifest plainness, embrace simplicity, reduce selfishness, have few desires.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Simplicity
  • Selfishness

• Everyone's attention span is getting shorter. As a result, everything - films, music, art - gets watered down and dumber. Every now and again, you get something great, but not often.

  

  Kelis Rogers
  • Great
  • Music
  • Art

• It's so hard for me to let go of 'The Normal Heart.'

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Heart

• I don't put on my best clothes to make a film, my Sunday best.

  

  Jonathan Glazer
  • Sunday

• And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.

  

  Virginia Woolf
  • Life
  • Exciting
  • Imaginary

• Woman's great mission is to train immature, weak and ignorant creatures to obey the laws of God; the physical, the intellectual, the social and the moral.

  

  Catharine Beecher
  • God
  • Woman
  • Laws

• Palmares Tres is a society born out of a distinct, idiosyncratic utopian vision formed in the midst of an apocalypse. I would say the residents of Palmares Tres respect the strength of that history and their remarkable ability to rise from the ashes of the old world.

  

  Alaya Dawn Johnson
  • World
  • History
  • Society