Alfre Woodard Quotes
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When facing a difficult task, act as though it is impossible to fail. If you are going after Moby Dick, take along the tartar sauce.
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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In common with all Protestant or Jewish cultures, America was developed on the idea that your word is your bond. Otherwise, the frontier could never have been opened, 'cause it was lawless. A man's word had to mean something.
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You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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Violent crime is a solved problem - all they have to do is repeal the laws that keep those intelligent, capable, and responsible men and women from arming themselves, and violent crime evaporates like dry ice on a hot summer day.
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The more walking-around money I have, the less I walk around.
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People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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Athletes don't like to get up early, but it never bothered me.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
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The squandering of oil and gas is associated with one of the greatest tragedies, not in the least resolved, which is suffered by humankind: climate change.
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Writing has never been that simple for me.
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Working with so many people from all over the world is extremely enriching and stimulating.
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In Japan, I focus mostly on sending messages through Twitter, trying to spread my minority way of thinking.
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I grew up during the Revolution of Iran and the war between Iran and Iraq. The things that I saw. The impact. How it changes you. How it changes the way you look at the world.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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I don’t know how I’ve survived the onslaughts of the government. It almost makes me believe in the Deity. I’m a Catholic, but I’m a Catholic-atheist, because the tragedies in life have overwhelmed me.
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She's 32, and she has three children. She loves to be pregnant but she doesn't want anymore children in her life. So she decided to help another couple. And she's just been amazing.
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I have been lucky enough to have had the opportunity of travelling across this country and enduring all the classic situations that go with talking to people.
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Outcome is simply the final score: Who won the game; what numbers came up in a roll of the dice; how high did a stock go. Outcome is the result, regardless of the method used to achieve it. It is not controllable.
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The people in New York - their humor is on a level that goes, uh, very deep, you know?
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I am not getting any younger and am taking a new approach to life.
