Allen Toussaint Quotes
Holed up at the New Orleans Superdome hoping to get on a bus for Houston's Astrodome.

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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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I know I should be Wonder Woman. They need an international actress - a fresh face. They need a woman who's tall, athletic and dark-haired - and an actress who can play the part. That's me. So, I'm coming to L.A. to work hard and meet the industry. And if 'Wonder Woman' comes together, I want it.
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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Up until 1995, I still had a day job that I hated. I was still personally involved in things in the 90s.
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My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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Schizophrenia beats dining alone.
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I was a dancer when I got discovered, and I started working immediately. I started being in commercials and doing guest star roles. My first big thing, which happened maybe six months after being discovered, was 'Bring It On: All or Nothing.'
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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I'm very competitive, and I want to win.
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.
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Some of the most amazing people I've met in life are cops.
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There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
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We're so busy broadcasting our latest cultural disdain that we scantly notice anything we enjoy. 'Oh man, this Rebecca Black kid is terrible! Let's laugh at her!' has become more culturally relevant than, 'I really love this new Bilal record.'
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When you have that long, flowing hair, you feel different - when you cut it, the framing of your face changes immediately.
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Sex in the City was a different kind of phenomenon because of the show itself is a phenomenon and to me that's successful because to resonate with women across the board for six years and have only one African-American actor pass through for one episode.
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I believe that life-saving, essential drugs should be freely available and the innovator should be paid a suitable royalty payment for his invention.
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I turn up in Los Angeles every now and then, so I can get some big money films in order to finance my smaller money films.
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I have a recurring nightmare that I wake up in a gutter with nothing. I've had it all my life. That's why I work, I think.
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In behavior, as in appearance, every human individual is unique.
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Holed up at the New Orleans Superdome hoping to get on a bus for Houston's Astrodome.