Daisy Bates Quotes
From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.
Quotes to Explore
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What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.
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I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
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Sometimes I don't know whether a movie has been shot on film or in digital when I watch it in the theatres.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.
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The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
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Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.
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The team behind 'The Lego Movie' approached me. They wanted to do something extra special for the Academy Award performance of best song nominee 'Everything is Awesome.' They had seen my earlier version of a Lego Oscar statue, and I was happy to take on the challenge.
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Unless you work for '60 Minutes', your life is: You do stories about things, and nothing happens as a result.
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A lot of time mistakes are very interesting - you look for the behaviour that's not the one you expect.
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The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.
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The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
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I had 500 kids at camp this past summer for example. We do nine weeks for kids and nine days for grown ups every summer. The adult camp is a lot of fun.
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I was a bit overweight as a teenager, which may be why I'm more comfortable playing with clothes than showing my body.
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How do we get more politicians to move from 'fixing' the system to reforming the system? The obvious answer is to either improve the quality of public services or reduce the public's dependence on them. Both approaches are necessary.
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There were a few teachers who just did not like me because of my face. Once, I was told to stand in the corner until I cheered up. The attitude was, 'Oh, for God's sake, what's the matter with him?' But it's just a natural expression.
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
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We gave the world dab fever!
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If your reader has been given a rousing opening, he will usually then sit still for at least some exposition. But be sure to follow that chunk of telling with one or more dramatized scenes. That's much more effective than being given section after section of telling.
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The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is now become part of the man.
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During the off-season when you see other people playing in the Super Bowl, you wonder, and you say to yourself, 'Are you ever gonna get there and see what it feels like?' And it pushes you a little bit harder during that off-season to work to try to get there the following year.
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I could definitely see myself making a serious movie or a drama in the future.
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I do not interfere, and people become rich by themselves.
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From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it.
