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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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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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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There is no kind of music I don't listen to. Everything good is interesting. I am as happy with a Bach fugue as I am with a record by Thelonious Monk.
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With these big superhero movies, everybody is so tight-lipped about everything, there's a certain amount of just going on faith.
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Science has done more for the development of Western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred.
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Our culture encourages women to nurture men, making it predictable that many experience a seductive empathy for abusive men, as well as the misguided hope that love can obliterate an ugly past.
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Your current situations or problems have been sent to you to teach you valuable lessons for success and happiness. What are they?
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He would have left a Greek accent slanting the wrong way, and righted up a falling man.
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After 9/11 and the impending actors' strike of a few years ago, roles dried up for everyone.
