Alexander Jackson Davis Quotes
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The first job I ever had was at a pool-liner-manufacturing plant. Minimum wage was $4.25, and that's what I was making. It was this huge, hot, un-air-conditioned factory staffed with all women and me. This is in Georgia, during the summertime, so it was pretty ridiculous.
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I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of 'Us Weekly,' and they don't really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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My dad lived by example. I lived by watching him. I watched all the great things he did and said. I try to walk that talk for my children.
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I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.
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Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, shall win my love.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!
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It's important for any artist - particularly female artists - to feel completely comfortable and to know what they're trying to do.
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Between 1945 and 1965, the number of colonial people ruled by the British monarch plunged from 700 million to five million. In 1956, just three years after the coronation, the Suez canal crisis and Anthony Eden's humiliation ended all notions that Britain was a world superpower.
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Asked to choose between money and fame, I'd choose the latter every time.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children's chorus. I was super fat at the time and didn't make eye contact with anyone. I knew I loved acting ever since.
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Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it.
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I would ask my mother to show me how to walk - and she did show me. That's why I think it's funny when people say, 'Did so-and-so teach you how to walk?' And I always say, 'You must be talking about my mother, because it was my mother who taught me how to walk.'
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I'd love to have William Faulkner, Beethoven and Bach over. I want to find out what makes those guys tick!
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I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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I think it's really, really important to mix it up as an actor, to try to get as much kind of varied experience as you can, not only for your own personal growth as an actor but for the audience to keep them guessing about what you're going to do.
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If you're planning only to make money and nothing else, you'll be broke.
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If people want to know the truth, why don't they just come to me and ask?
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American radicals cannot afford to become their own worst enemies. In unity lies their only hope.
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For me space rock is something that takes you out of yourself and out of your normal realm. And if space happens to be that inner space or outer space it's a very personal thing. I think that mantra is space music. I think that Native American tribal drumming is space music. Anything that allows you to go inward to go outward and to move within a space that is not normal to your reality.
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I have designed the most buildings of any living American architect.
