Alvin Ailey Quotes
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The Sundance Institute has been vital to the film communities of Latin America.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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I like watching films that can play in any language because they're essentially silent.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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I can see myself always writing songs - but I'm not sure if I'll always want to perform.
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This result was confirmed by different researchers using various experimental arrangements.
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If writers just sit and talk about oppression, they are not going to do much writing.
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I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.
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The systematic dismantling of reproductive rights, much like the takedown of collective bargaining, has been taking place in full view.
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I was shocked when I heard that Farghadani had been sentenced to 12 years and nine months in prison on spurious charges, as Amnesty International notes, of 'spreading propaganda against the system,' 'insulting members of the parliament through paintings' and 'insulting the Supreme Leader' with her cartoon.
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I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
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Nobody knows me, and I hope that it stays like this.
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People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.
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Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.
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Right away when I got to college, I realized that being a politician sucks. It's really hard! It wasn't for me. B.J. Novak is convinced that I will run for mayor of Chicago at some point. He begs me to do it. It'd be a tough gig, but I was always very attracted to the idea of helping people and trying to make the city a better place.
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Five lawyers have closed the debate and enacted their own vision of marriage as a matter of constitutional law... Just who do we think we are?
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What I want to accomplish artistically amounts to nothing more than fulfilling the promise of the American Revolution.
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I've got quite a varied iTunes, and I like to raid people's CD collections and take on their music.
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Nothing personal; I just don't have people over.
