Allyson Felix Quotes
The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.
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Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with 'Highway,' there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended 'Highway' to be the first film that I ever made. Didn't happen.
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A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.
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I learned that despite having years and years of experience in math and computer science and so on, I didn't really know how to code until I formed a company.
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But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
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I think I will be able to, in the end, rise above the clouds and climb the stairs to Heaven, and I will look down on my beautiful life.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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We develop our propensity to forgive or not to forgive by what we see illustrated at the early ages of our development.
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I have yet to see a drama that puts forward women who are successful and also have a family... they are nearly always seen as victims.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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We've got a very difficult situation created by this embrace of the so-called Arab Spring. And that's not getting better. It's getting worse. The carnage for the people of Syria is horrific, and it's quite frankly too little, too late to reverse a lot of that.
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I do not make any apologies for my manner or personality. I come from a long line of very strong, black African-American women who neither bend nor bow. I haven't had very good modeling in submission.
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I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
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I still love records, and I've been fortunate that my parents bought me a record player so I didn't just have my vinyls to stare at!
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I can't hold a grudge anyway.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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You still slightly down that you're ever going to work again, every time you finish something. That's the territory of being an actor. It's like anything that's competitive. It takes a lot of determination. I just feel lucky to be able to do something that I really love.
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I actually felt like I was starting a new career as a news reporter while playing in 'Pinocchio.'
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My mother reads tarot cards, actually, but I won't let her read mine.
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In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!
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We need art more than ever as we stagger toward the Millennium.
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The truest you can be is taking off those clothes.
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Discipline yourself to find something positive in every situation every day. You attract positivity when you are positive within.
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The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.
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The most important lesson that I have learned is to trust God in every circumstance. Lots of times we go through different trials and following God's plan seems like it doesn't make any sense at all. God is always in control and he will never leave us.
