Alicia Garza Quotes
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Comedy's really subjective, you know; that's why it's so hard.
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I tested for a couple of pilots, but they said I was too tall.
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I take care of my flowers and my cats. And enjoy food. And that's living.
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I don't get offered leading parts. I suppose I've become a kind of character actor or sideman. I think it had to do with probably in the '90s, I refused so many leading roles that they gave up on me, or I just became unpopular, or I became old. All those reasons.
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I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
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I went from buying my own condominium and a car for myself when I was 17 on 'The Facts of Life' to not being able to pay my rent. I was at the unemployment office all the time. I had to sell my record collection just to make ends meet. And then I started getting these voice-over jobs.
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The musket could not be aimed except in a general direction; a bow in the hands of a skilled archer could regularly hit and kill an enemy completely beyond musket range.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.
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I am actually one of those who took President Obama at his word when he first ran - that he would get us out of ill-advised wars, that he would do something about health care costs, and that he would protect civil liberties. Like many Americans, I was disappointed.
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Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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I think you can totally be a totally normal kid from the suburbs of Chicago and go off and play shows. It's one of those things that when you go home, you're still the nerd you were when you left, and your parents still get to yell at you about cleaning up your room, and your girlfriend still drags you to the pet store.
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I learned a long time ago that fame and money is not a ticket to happiness.
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Dear sisters and brothers, we realize the importance of light when we see darkness.
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Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims; to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.
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I tour whether I have album out or not. I tour more than any other hip-hop artist.
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I do think that many Americans have a limited view of what constitutes Japanese cartooning based on what gets translated, so it's great to see an increase in diversity.
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I came up in a family oriented towards the sick, so I always felt an obligation for doing something.
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That's the great irony of allowing passionate people to work from home. A manager's natural instinct is to worry that her workers aren't getting enough work done. But the real threat is that they will wind up working too hard. And because the manager isn't sitting across from her worker anymore, she can't look in the person's eyes and see burnout.
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I really can't describe what my stand-up is like - people see it and they say it's like that, or it's like this, and that's really up to them, that's fine, but I don't sit around all day analysing it. I just try and enjoy a show and interest myself because if I don't do that then I won't interest anybody else.
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I love to dance, and I love to see people dance. It is good exercise. It gives you a kind of energy.
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I grew up in Marin County, which is a wealthy suburb of San Francisco.
