Alfre Woodard Quotes
After 9/11 and the impending actors' strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.
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I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
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A lot of people said I was a rebel. I wasn't.
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I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
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I love entertaining and doing Martha Stewart stuff.
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I think you have to do certain things in the pilot to get your network's attention - to break through... So maybe you push a little further in the first show.
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I always tell audiences when I talk about writing: Writing isn't something I do; writing is something that I am. I am writing - it's just an expression of me.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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Judges can determine fair justice far better than any inane federal mandate.
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We think of the revolution ending in Yorktown, Va. The fact of the matter is that the French defeated the British in a naval battle right in the mouth of Chesapeake Bay. Because the British fleet was coming to rescue Cornwallis, the British general, Washington was able to surround Cornwallis.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.
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It's very important not to lose your temper in a courtroom, or in anything else you're doing.
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I remember having my father stand over me when I had driven over my own foot; one leg was out of the car and one leg was in the car. He looked at me and told me that I was a drunk and that he was ashamed to call me his son. That night, I stopped drinking and I never drank again; I was twenty four.
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We are the recipients of scientific method. We can each be a creative and active part of it if we so desire.
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Swing dance has been a part of my life since I was born.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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When I was very young, it was Guns N' Roses and Metallica. I'd play air guitar on my bed. They've been the thread throughout my life.
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Almost every evening in their common early-Cubist years, in Paris, either I went to Braque's studio or Braque came to mine. Each of us had to see what the other had done during the day. We criticized each other's paintings. A canvas wasn't finished unless both of us felt it was. a remark of Picasso to Françoise Gilot, December 1908
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Everything is not on a plate for you at Saint Martins - it's about personality, about working out how to do it.
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When something comes up, and it's interesting, and I have the time, I'll do it.
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I grew up in North Dakota around Dakota and Ojibwe people, and also small-town people in Wahpeton. Writers make few choices, really, about their material. We have to write about what comes naturally and what interests us - so I do.
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After 9/11 and the impending actors' strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone.
